Robert W. Woodruff Library EMORY UNIVERSITY Special Collections & Archives §&tani) HtgJjt on tfje ibebentf) Wonber X-RAY AND SEARCH LIGHT ON THE BIBLE WITH NATURAL SCIENCE Bfecobertes of tfje ®toentictfj Centurp (By BONAPARTE NAPOLEON BOYD 1905 GREENVILLE, N. C. Copyright, 1905, by B. N. Boyd CONTENTS i Preliminary Gleamlngs. The Power of Bodies in Motion. II Introduction. Conditions That Now Exist in the Entire World. III Natural Science on the Positive and Negative Forces. IV Search Light on the Seventh and Greatest Wonder of the World. The Revelation of a Secret That Was Kept Hidden from Man After His Degeneration. The Gates Closed to the Garden of Understanding. V Search Light and Science, or Slow Match Put to Africa, by Rome and all the European Powers, B.C. 34. 3 4 Contents VI Science and Search Light on the X-Ray and the Unfolding of th<- Wonder of the Seventh Seal. The Wonder of the Seventi Day, the Sabbath, or Sad-Day. The Wonder of the Seventh Spirit and all the Brutal World as it Repeats Itself in all Nature. VII Natural Science on Adam and Eve's Offsprings and Search Light on the Seed of the Man and the Seed of the Woman. VIII Search Light and Science on Satan's Success on the Moral and Physical Man, Causing Noah to Betray His Trust, Damning His Posterity Morally and Physically. IX Search Light on Abraham and Science on the Moral and Figur¬ ative Church. X Search Light and Science on Isaac and Offsprings; Cultivation of the Moral and Figurative Church and the Infidelity of Re¬ becca. XI The death of Jacob in Egypt; the Arranged Figurative Church Among the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and the Declared War Between the Positive and Negative Forces of the Figurative Church by the Faction. Contents 5 XII Search Light and Science on the Alliance of the Ten Tribes of Israel with Greece and Rome; the Tribe of Judah and Dan with Egypt, B.C. 1063, Driven into the Union by King David, and the Peaceful Reign of King Solomon. XIII Science on the Renewed Alliance of the Tribes of Joseph, Ben¬ jamin and Levi with Rome and Greece and the Seven Colored Tribes that Followed. The Alliance of the Tribes of Dan and Judah with Egypt and They Have not Surrendered to this Day, Because They Fortified and all Went into Idolatry. XIV Science on Isaiah's Message to Judah and Dan, B.C. 760. XV X-Ray and Science on the Final End of the Great Crisis Between the Positive and Negative Forces, or the Black and White Races, B.C. 33. XVI Natural Science on the Birth of Christ. Search Light on His Parents. The False and Misleading Reports Concerning His Birth and Resurrection by the Roman Senate and the High Priest and Ribbis of Israel, Which is in Effect to this Day. XVII Search Light on the Acts of Christ and the position the Devil Holds in the World. 6 Contents XVIII Search Light and Science on the Crucifixion of Christ. Search Light on the Resurrection. The Battle Fought with Lucifer the Devil and the Angel of God Between Heaven and Earth. The Great Crisis Between the Positive and Negative Forces Revealed by Science. XIX X-Ray and Science on the Birth of the Christian Church and the Workings of the Holy Spirit. The Adopting or Recording of the New Testament and the Alliance the Church Formed with the Devil Through Rome and Israel and the Apostles' Creed. XX. Science and Search Light on Saul of Tarsus or St. Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles. XXI. X-Ray and Science on Principles and Decomposed and Putrefied Matter Which the New Prince Has Planted in the World. Search Light on Principles of the Great Creator, Search Light on the Consumption of the Devil's Principles and all of His Decomposed Putrefied Matter. X-Ray, Science and Search Light on the Great Refining of this the Natural World. I Preliminary Gleanings. THE POWER OF BODIES IN MOTION. A body, a wheel, a ball or a sentiment once put in motion will move forever unless it comes in contact with a greater body, wheel, ball or sentiment that will overpower it and impede its progress, else they will move forever; regardless as to whether it be right or whether it be wrong it will continue to move until it is overpowered by sentiment or gravitation, which will mean death to the sentiment or moving body. We will simplify the above. The water in the running brook or canal will run its destined course forever, unless you overpower it by building a dam across the brook or canal and by overpowering it cause it to turn another course. So will a ball roll forever, started down grade, if it did not run in contact with an up grade or an embankment to overpower it. So it is with a wheel, and so it is with all animal life, and man¬ kind especially would live forever if he did not come in contact with a greater power than himself to stop him. A great many times disease seizes, a man and would stop him at the time for life if he did not run in contact with some medical skill to overpower the disease. And he goes on through life until he is finally over¬ come by a ripe age of gravitation, which no man can escape. So it is with sentiment: a man would keep a good name forever if he did not run into contact with a bad sentiment which will brand him for life and all his posterity. It will take the untiring efforts 7 8 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder of his posterity to erase the sentiment, and, as a rule, it will reach to the fifth generation regardless of their efforts to erase it, it matters not whether it be right or wrong. There are certain sentiments in the world to-day that were planted by the devil to destroy the purpose of God, and they will go on forever until the world will have come to an end unless they are damned and overcome by the greater intellectual world, of which Satan hath no control because their counsel is pure and just. By this sentiment Satan has kept his kingdom crowded since the creation, and all mankind misled, and if they are not overpowered by a higher intellectual world they will go on forever, but they must be overpowered by man, as he grows in the favor of God, from whom he degenerated. And if mankind faileth to reach hither his hand to the Tree of Life, or overpower these senti¬ ments, he will forever die. (See Gen. 3:22.) The above is a work of science, which should be taught scien¬ tifically. The sole mission of this book is to enlighten men of all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, theoretically, practically and scientifically, for no greater treaties have been treated upon since the world began. There are things which Jesus Christ spoke of while in the world, which were sealed and left to be revealed by the present generation, and them that succeed us, and by the gift of the Holy Spirit, because the world was so wicked at that age they could not stand it, for they put to death those who did reveal minor things. On account of the sentiment the devil had in the world, the writer does not propose to wage war against indus¬ try, neither does he propose to apologize for crime and stupidity, especially at this bright age of the world, or great crisis, one among the greatest of all history. We trust that all who read this book will hand it down to their several families, or divide it among themselves. II Introduction. ■ CONDITIONS THAT NOW EXIST IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. The condition that exists in the world to-day the present gen¬ eration is not responsible for, but the past generations are. What the present generation expects of the future they (the present generation) must lay the foundation of; though it be right, though it be wrong, whatever foundation the present generation lays, the future generations will build upon. If the present generation finds no condemnation in the foundation of their predecessors, they will let their foundation stand for their posterity. But if the present generation finds a defect in the foundation of their predecessors, to be wise and prudent they will correct the mistake for their pos¬ terity, for whatever training the present generation gives to those that will succeed them will be seen and felt and very apt to cost life rather than be erased. There is hope of changing the young, but the old is doubtful. From early training a man is apt to lose his life rather than change, though it be right, though it be wrong. The conditions that exist between the nations of to-day, especially the white and black races, are just as they are trained. It is not inherited because it is a sentiment, and that a man cannot inherit. It is a sentiment planted in the world by the prince of the air (the devil), to meet man as soon as he arrives in the world, and when he becomes old enough to know good from evil he is taught by his 9 to Search Light on the Seventh Wonder ancestors and makes his choice of what he finds in the world. Man is made free. God will not allow him to be captured in the womb along this line when he is not able to discern his right hand from his left and require his life for what he was not able to defend. Being born in sin does not mean in the womb along this line, but it refers to the world, and the sin against the soul and against God. There are other sins that are hereditary, which we will explain further along, as you will be more able to understand. We emphasize the fact, so that it may be understood, that we do not propose to apologize for wrong on account of conditions; neither do we propose to oppress right, to cater to popular senti¬ ment. The writer only proposes to apply natural science on the positive and negative forces in the higher branch of the animal world, or the black and white races as they have existed and do now exist. As we glide along through or at the beginning of the twentieth century we have taken our X-Ray in hand and wher¬ ever we discern or locate a defected spot that is injurious to man¬ kind's happiness we propose to cut it out for the sole purpose of saving the object, or individual; some it will make sick, and some it will revive. On our journey we hope that we will not be mis¬ understood. Some skeptic may think that the writer is trying to gain great fame as a hero (as this seems to be the ambition of the present age), to get the applause of the popular sentiment of the world. Just such ambition has put the nations where they are to¬ day. Neither do we propose to start insurrection, physically speak¬ ing. We are not catering to popular sentiment, because popular sentiment is against God and right. As a rule it is of the world and the world loves its own. For the ways of the world and the ways of God do not now agree and never have agreed. Neither is the writer trying to force social equality on the people, because man was made a free being, to accept or reject, God gave him the law, Search Light on the Seventh Wonder li but independent of the law, man selects his own associates, ac¬ cording to custom, among his rank and file. Custom is stronger than law. Regardless of legislative bodies, man's custom is his lust. According to custom the black man hath no honors, nor rights that the fair races of the world are bound to respect, be¬ cause he hath no history as a man, but as a slave and a negro, although there are some republics where the black man rules. But for the sake of trade they slightly honor him, but it is for gain, and to save trouble. He cannot demand from history that he is a man, a free moral being. It is only uttered in words, for his being is claimed by all historians to have come by some un¬ natural cause, and the nations are trained that way, both black and white. Although some fair, or white men, through the dif¬ ferent ages of the world, on account of the tie of nature have attempted to defend his cause, he hath no history further than as a negro and a slave. Many have lost their lives in the attempt, and their families have been boycotted because he hath no written history to prove that God made him in the beginning of the world a man. It has always proven dangerous for a fair man to take his part as a man, for it generally ends in death, but for lack of history as a man they were recorded as negroes, or slaves try¬ ing to free themselves from their predestined masters. John Brown, who was fair, saw his condition in the United States (A.D. 1859) arid became crazed over the subject, and attempted to free them by the sword, and it cost him his life. On account of the dissatisfaction in all the legislative halls and colonies of the United States, for the love of their slaves some of the States se¬ ceded from the Union. Abraham Lincoln saw the state of affairs among his people, be¬ cause one part owned slaves and the others did not, but he wanted his people to be contented and happy. He did all he' could to con- 12 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder tent them, yet they would not. And, to save the Union, Lincoln called in the slave, with the promise of his freedom, to make him fight. It was like a dream to the slave he had been serving so long, but he fought. Lincoln succeeded; but as the black man only had history as a slave, Lincoln left the slave where he found him, but almost in a worse state, left in the presence of his former master, whom the slave had just stopped fighting, to do the best he could. Lincoln was trying to reconcile his own people, and after he saved the Union left the slave, with his master, to help recover from the great siege. Lincoln could not go further for the black man, be¬ cause he had no history as a man, only as a theorist. But regard¬ less of all this, it cost Lincoln his life in the Ford Theatre, at the capital of the nation. Wars always originate from two evil sources for selfish motives. The purpose of God is always preserved un¬ known to the confused forces, for they will take odds to succeed regardless of what comes afterward. This was the case with Lincoln. But the kingdom of God cannot be purchased with the sword. Ill NATURAL SCIENCE ON THE POSITIVE AND NEGA¬ TIVE FORCES. Natural science is a scene, natural, a scene that appears in all nature without the assistance of man, a scene that mankind can¬ not successfully disturb, a scene that always reflects itself in all nature. It is commonly known as the repeating of history, a scene which cannot be disturbed by any creature of time. For it to be disturbed at all it must be a creature of eternity, which is greater than any creature of time. The positive and negative forces are propelling forces, the one propels the other in a scientific motion, in perfect harmony. No creature of time can disturb or impede their onward mission. These forces were planted by the Great Spirit, or Creator, to keep the world in per¬ petual motion of themselves. They were mild, and worked in perfect harmony, never produced uncertain extremity or irregu¬ lar movement, else God's work would have been imperfect, but the work was perfect, like day and night, winter and summer, one positive and the other negative, male and female, heat and moist¬ ure. These are the principal forces. Although there are minor forces, they owe their origin to the principal forces from which they received their being, such as the various colors in vegetables, and the brute world. The colorsi came by a fusion of light and darkness, heat and moisture, and by the same process we have the different strata of earth, but they owe their origin to the prime forces, which were perfect. There was no creature of time that was able to disturb them, but Lucifer, the son of the morning, the prince of the air, the devil, not a creature of time, but a 13 14 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder creature of eternity, disturbed one of the prime negative forces. These forces were some of the prime characters of the great Creator.* Satan dared not touch them directly, without permis¬ sion, because he was a negative force of eternity, and is a contrast to God and is subject to God only. The Great Spirit is the posi¬ tive force of the spiritual world, and the devil is the nega¬ tive force of the spiritual world. He dares not touch one of the prime characters of God without permission. Satan touched the positive force through the negative force. Man, or Adam, was one of the greatest forces of all creation. He had to be physically and intellectually so to classify and command the minor forces. He was the ideal of the Almighty, amid all of His creation. God also gave him dominion over the entire world, without any bounds. In Adam's body was the seed of his poster¬ ity, and Mother Eve was made from Adam's side. After they were made, Satan could not approach Adam, because he was a positive force, but he did approach Mother Eve, and caused her to degenerate, and she, being a part of Adam, he partook also. God gave the law to Adam and Adam to Eve. And when Adam broke God's law all nature became aroused, because Adam was a positive force, and controller of the world. At this time the trust that was given to Adam, he gave to the prince of the air through Mother Eve. Then Satan became the prince of this world. God, or the Great Spirit, made the world and the fulness thereof, and left it in the care of Adam (the positive force) and took His journey to a far country. God returned, in the shade of the evening, and found that the vineyard had been sold to the devil, through Mother Eve. At this time the Great Spirit was grieved. He gave Adam and Eve His command and took His flight. They were then left in the care of their new master. And He began to plan for the redemption of man. God loved man be¬ cause he was master of all His creation. But He could not en¬ dure him, after he fell, because he could not commune with him. So after Adam had been driven from the garden, and the Great Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 15 Spirit had taken its flight, all nature became restless with its new king. To make man and beast fear him he began to disturb all the minor forces of the world, for he then had power over them. Minor matter, in the ethereal heaven, on the earth and in the seas began to decay and putrefy at the command of the new prince. At the command of the devil confused gases would burst and ignite the air. Great peals of thunder would roar, and lightning would flash over the head of man and beast: something they had never seen nor heard before. Man and beast trembled at the sight. The lion began to roar in the forest; and all the beasts be¬ came mad, for the devil had filled the air with evil spirits. Then he would ball himself up in the great whirlwinds, and make the seas mad, so that the fish might fear and tremble at their new king. And the vapor that would rise from the mad seas would go up and form clouds. And such pouring rains man and beast had never seen before, for before Adam broke the law it had never rained on the earth. And this time Satan could do all he chose except destroy the world: and he can do that at the com¬ mand of God, but not otherwise, because they are forces he can¬ not touch without permission. They are the pillars of the world, or Natural Science. When Satan would bring these great con¬ vulsions and disasters on the land, he would teach the nations that it was God, and is teaching them that to-day. A kingdom divided against itself will not stand. Of all these things the devil is the father, because he was a liar from the beginning. He hath filled the air with pestilent diseases, caused derangement of minds, and hath sent earthquakes and famines. Yet there is no more matter to-day than there was in the creation of the world, neither is there less. If water finds a new place among you, you may know that land has appeared somewhere else. If a city is destroyed in one place by an earthquake, land has appeared elsewhere to be in¬ habited. There is no way to destroy these forces, especially the prime force. The Creator of the world, the Great Spirit, moved on the face of the great deep, and caused fermentation to take i6 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder place in the midst of the waters, to divide the waters from the waters, with light and heat in the firmament, heat and moisture, which were the first things in creation (see Gen. 1:3). And the same fermentation has been going on ever since, has never ceased. Were it not for the fermentation, after snows, rains, sleets and the decomposition of animal and vegetable matter, man and beast would have ceased to live. But these forces (positive and negative) Satan could not destroy. When the waters were divided, that is, water above and water beneath the earth, he gave the waters their bound and the land its bound. If the earth robs the water the water will rob the earth. One of these forces will not operate without the other. They move scientifically and spontaneously. A barrel that will only hold three bushels of water cannot hold three bushels of water and earth at the same time; the former will have to give space for the latter, or the latter the former. Both cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We hope by this time you have an idea of natural science, and its revelation in all nature, as it does exist and repeat itself. Without a knowledge of this man would go through life like a pig under an acorn tree, that careth not from whence it cometh. Owing to the past training of the nations of the world for so many centuries, this treatise will be very hard to understand, and especially hard to put in practice, unless you can apply reason and common sense; to do this you will have to ignore the best part of our training, from that we received at our parents' knees, to old age, both religious and moral. Public sentiment must be ignored, and that is very hard to do. The devil has filled the world with worthless books to mislead the weak. He has dark¬ ened the counsel of the wise, and as a rule they are appealing to the ignorance of the people for financial gain. For want of per¬ fect literature, literature that is fortified by the revelation of Nature's God, the leaders do not believe one tenth they tell the people, and the people know it, at this enlightened age. The leaders are serving the people and not God, Whatever is agree- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 17 able to the people is what they get. They pay for it, and that is all of it. For this cause the world is full of divers gods, and temples of worship, dedicated to the different gods, as St. Paul saw at Athens. Each temple's god was against the other, a lump of confused matter. No man knows, nor has any idea, where they will ever stop. The cost has never been counted, it is only a work of time. It is only a work, to last in time and will end in time. The time will come, and is close at hand, when the law ot will of God will be written 011 men's hearts and in their faces, so that the fool may not err therein. For the will of God is planted in all nature. All that is necessary for the wise and prudent man is to be shown these things, and they will show it-to the simple and thirsty. He that knoweth not, and knoweth not that he knoweth not, is a fool; shun him. He that knoweth not, and knoweth that he knoweth not, is simple; teach him. He that knoweth, and knoweth not that he knoweth, is asleep; wake him. He that knoweth, and knoweth that he knoweth, is wise; follow him. Although there are prominent men, and men of great learn¬ ing, leading the people, hoping there is a God; some believing there is a God, others claiming there is no God. But all these divers opinions of man go to justify their folly. Some know there is a God, which all nature proves. He displays himself by the uttering of speech, by night (unfolding the foliage and germin¬ ating the seed), and the daylight displays his handiwork, which is the fermentation that proceeded during the night. No man has any excuse for not knowing there is a God, or Great Spirit. It is proven by the system of the sun, and by day and night, winter and summer, which are the prime forces of the world. There are 18 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder some men who have a gift of God, but not according to ^ edge. The man who cannot see, or knoweth not, has not r ^ attempt to lead, for both are blind and will fall in the <^C . ° gether. A man believing there is a God doubts his own & and should be pitied. The man hoping there is a God should be taught. There are some men going through life knowing there is a God, and unto them the world should look for light. God is a Spirit, and cannot deal with mankind but through man only. If God faileth to teach man through man, mankind is already lost. For a wicked man cannot behold the personage of God lest he die at once. When all men became wicked, God had no worldly house to live in. Man's body was created for the house of God in the world. When Adam degenerated he deprived the Great Spirit of His home, or temple. The wicked world cannot stand direct contact with the Great Spirit, neither can it stand the counsel oi the just. The wise and prudent men are responsible for the peo¬ ple, whether their teachings be right, or whether they be wrong; if the leaders are blind the people will be blind: if the leaders are wise the people will be wise. If the great heads of the nations mislead the people, for want of understanding, the people are all lost. Understanding comes to whom it is given, and is only given when the people are prepared to receive it. It is only given to those who will give it to the people, regardless of the disap¬ provals. He that hopes to commune with God otherwise than preparing- his own body, or through man, will be deceived in him¬ self. Some are looking and listening for voices in the air or a great noise; they will be deceived, for the noise of this world is the prince of the air (the devil). On account of these noises many never hear the voice of God. The busy scenes in the heavens above and the earth beneath are carried on by the prince of the air to attract the attention of the giddy and the gay. And they never hear the voice of God at all through all the journey of life For the voice of God is a) contrast to the voice of the prince of the world and is easy and calm (see I. Kings 19:12). Manki d Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 19 has been fooled by the prince of the air for want of understand¬ ing. All nations fear and tremble before him daily, both man and beast. But when man turns the beast will turn. The turning must first be done in the primitive man, and his posterity will fol¬ low. The primitive man will not turn until he sees his mistakes, and he cannot see them unless someone shows him. And no man can show him unless he is given power and sent. A man receives power by preparation and a craving for reformation. This crav¬ ing must come through the primitive man (to whom God gave the law), and from the primitive man to the primitive woman, from the primitive man and woman, to all their posterity through¬ out the world. God has been watching the primitive man and woman; throughout all the different changes of the world His eye has ever been on their every movement with the devil, their new prince. IV. SEARCH LIGHT ON THE SEVENTH AND GREATEST WONDER OF THE WORLD—THE REVELATION OF A SECRET THAT WAS KEPT HIDDEN FROM MAN AFTER HIS DEGENERATION— THE GATES CLOSED TO THE GARDEN OF UNDERSTANDING. To make a successful arrival at this hidden secret or the seal of mankind's damnation, a seal that was sealed after Adam and Eve broke God's law, the power and dominion man gave to the prince of the air is why he (the devil) has kept them blindfolded throughout all the different changes of the world up to the pres¬ ent day. Kingdoms and nations have risen and crumbled to dust over this secret or seal, yet failed to lose and analyze, or to read correctly and "satisfactorily. It is a secret that was reserved from mankind, in the counsels of the Almighty, after Adam had broken God's Holy Law. God hath said, unless the primitive man reach hither his hand, and give to his posterity, it would never be re¬ vealed. And mankind would ever die, for want of knowledge of his Creator and his will, and that wisdom which was first given to man. For this cause the primitive man a'hd his posterity have been at war ever since, nations against nations and kingdoms against kingdoms. To reveal this secret to the world, so that it may be fortified for all time to come, we will have to use the search light or ex- ray (figuratively speaking). We will have to supply natural science on the positive and negative forces, that we may arrive at the proper source, so that mankind may see the law or will of 21 22 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder God written on men's foreheads as it does spontaneously exist. A prudent man, or a child, in .search of understanding relative to his Creator, and should visit the art museums of the world, espe¬ cially the animal department of the highest order, or the depart¬ ment respecting mankind of all nations, then turn to the text books of the world, along the same line, from the Bible down; then turn to your teachers, along this same line, from religion down. The whole thing will prove in words, and in object lessons, that God is not just in making a rational being because He made some superior to the others on account of color. It also proves that God had no less than five creations of mankind, each of a different color, and one has no kinship to the other. Only as a theory, they all came from the earth. Then the student turns to the Bible, (the book of books). There he reads where God made only one man, and a woman from the man's side. Unable to understand it, he seeks information, and the information he receives, if any, is that God put a curse on some of . these races, on account of crime, by changing their colors and making them inferior, but leaves him with a rational mind, and requires the same respect and homage. The student turns away confused, doubting the whole thing. By such doctrine arise infidels among the wise and prudent, daily, and among the floating millions arise murderers, vagabonds, anarchists and thieves. Nevertheless there was but one creation of mankind, and all of the different shades justly sprang from an equal basis, as was predestined by the Great Spirit. The seed was in the primitive man, and is displayed to¬ day among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, because it repeats itself, especially in the primitive man (the black man). But the prince of the world hath darkened the counsel of the nations of the world so long, it will seem like a dream to the mov¬ ing millions that are on the face of the earth, as they have been coming and going, without any consideration of the Great Spirit. Mankind is at enmity in regard to color. All the fair races and all the colored races have histories of themselves as men that Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 23 will demand a portion of respect, or consideration, among the leading powers of the world. But the black man has no history as a man. As a slave, a servant and a negro, he has plenty of history, as a "man, and a free moral being, he has none. No man or nation is compelled to respect him as an equal. His color is a hindrance to alliance and society. The black race has not had any history, as a free and ruling people, since Caesar invaded Egypt, at the time of Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt; and the last of the reign of Ptolemy Lathyrus, which ended the Egyptian dynasty A.M. 3960. Preceding this time, Africa was thoroughly civilized, from sea to sea, and from shore to shore. The dynasty began when Ham and his three sons took charge of Africa, immediately after the confusion at the tower of Babel. Africa was then the greatest civilized power of the world, and later Greece and Rome. The descendants of Japheth received training at Egypt, and be¬ came great powers. Egypt was the great leader in literature. In Alexandria was the finest library in the world. Alexandria was a city built by Alexander the Great after he had conquered the world by the sword A.M. 3480. He built the library, since the Egyptians were such lovers of literature. During the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus the library was destroyed, but under the reign of Ptolemy Lathyrus it was restored. During the dynasty of Lathyrus there were several Cleopatras, who sat on the throne of Egypt as queen. But the Cleopatra referred to in this treatise was the last Egyption queen to sit on the throne of Egypt. It was in her day that the library of Alexandria was in its full bloom, and the country in a prosperous condition. In the year A.M., 3966, or B.C. 34, Julius Csesar Jr. the second son of Julius Caesar the Roman king who was assassinated by Brutus at this time, struck the final blow at Egypt, the Egyptians (the black woolly- haired race), and all Africa. Julius Caesar, at the head of an army of men, with horses, chariots and camels by land, and ships of all descriptions by sea, invaded Egypt, by the way of Alexandria, and set fire to that library, which consisted of 700,000 bound 24 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder volumes at that time. This was the soul of that people, Destroy a man's history or- a people's history and you have robbed him of that you can never restore, but will always keep, him poor and a drone in the world. If the God of nature does not preserve that people's history in nature, so that they can reproduce it as nature repeats itself, they are damned world without end. So long as that man or that people remain slaves, and ignorant, they will never be able to see their history when nature repeats itself. Csesar, the Roman, did not only burn their library, but reduced the inhabitants to an unlimited slavery, and took their country as an indefinite inheritance. Africa is the home of the black woolly- haired man, as a possession after the flood, and before the flood (see Gen. 2:11-15). All the nations had lived there but spread over the other countries, as they do unto this day. By the advice of Noah, Ham went back to the home of his ancestors, before the flood. For this reason, the Egyptians had histories that extend¬ ed farther back, and eclipsed the histories of all other nations. They were always great agriculturists and are to-day. And their love for this industry, as a rule, is why they inhabit the fertile belts of the different countries, and especially during slavery. The color of man's skin and the texture of his hair have nothing to do with the different zones of the world. Neither do the different zones have anything to do with the color of his skin or the texture of his hair, so much as his seed is concerned, neither does the latitude or longitude change him. It may darken, if exposed, or lighten, as the case may be. But it will never change his seed, while the world stands. There is no geographical range for mankind, as there is for the brute world. The brute is pre¬ destined, and cannot take advantage of the different changes in life. Just as he appears in the world, so he goes through the world, regardless of how the weather may change. You may change climates withj him but he will never change. He knows of no condition to invent or to improve. He is only a subject of mankind, and is so predestined by the Almighty. But mankind is Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 25 not, and climate has nothing to do with where he wants to live. Regardless of. condition, he will invent something to suit the con¬ dition though it be little or much, in proportion to his necessities. His color, and how his ancestors died, having nothing to do with it. The brutes are not so. They are compelled to use the language and custom of their ancestry, and cannot change it while the world stands. V SEARCH LIGHT AND SCIENCE, OR SLOW MATCH PUT TO AFRICA, BY ROME AND ALL THE EURO¬ PEAN POWERS, B.C. 34. The powers of ancient Rome, and the combined forces of Europe put the slow match to the Egyptian, or African, the woolly-haired race, A.M. 3966. And that match is burning to¬ day, it has never gone out. Rome did it, with the power of the sword and torch, with all the European and colored races of the world, to assist her. Before the great siege, they would trade and have business dealings together, along an educational line in Egypt, but not in Rome, because she never would receive an Egyptian as a minister. Neither would she receive an Egyptian ambassador. And if they went there Rome would slay them. But Egypt always would accept Romans. The trade that went on be¬ tween Greece and Rome in Egypt was very great, and the Egyp¬ tians could never consume the bread they raised annually. This brought her great trade from all Europe and Asia, especially dur¬ ing the great famines that would break out in all countries: For their knowledge, science and literature Rome would have busi¬ ness dealings for knowledge in bygone days. Egypt never dealt with Rome socially but Rome dealt in Egypt socially. That which brought the great siege upon Egypt (Africa) was on the part of Julius Caesar I, the one who was assassinated by Brutus in Rome A.M. 3960. At this time war broke out between Julius Caesar, sovereign of Rome, and Ptolemy, king of Egypt. At Alexandria, the capital, during 'a hot battle between Caesar and Ptolemy, Ptolemy fell overboard and was drowned. This left the throne 27 28 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder of Egypt blank, and at the mercy of Csesar the Roman. Just be¬ fore the siege, Caesar visited Egypt prospecting. Cleopatra was princess at the time, and was a very pretty Egyptian- On ac¬ count of enemies the Egyptians had in other nations, especially Europe, she doubted the success of her father during this planned siege. She knew that Roman men were ardent admirers of Egyptian women. So she pays Csesar a visit, during his visit to Egypt. Csesar became madly in love with her at first sight. She was only fourteen years of age at the time. And at the death of her father she was not old enough to take the throne of Egypt. But one of her older brothers were. She had three, viz., Apean, the son of a concubine, Lathyrus and Alexander. These two were legitimate. Lathyrus was rightly heir to the throne. But Caesar, being the proper person to settle the question, being so much in love with Cleopatra, and wanting to gain her affection, gave the throne to her and her youngest brother, Alexander. This caused dissatisfaction among the Egyptians. However, Csesar had a purpose in view. He was for gaining the affection of Cleopatra, which he did. Neither did Cleopatra care, because she wanted the kingdom of Egypt in the hands of her people, and not the Romans. Csesar wanted her person, in which purpose he succeeded. And she bare him a son at the age of sixteen, by the name of Csesar (mulatto). Csesar was fair, a Roman, the descendant of Japheth. The Egyptians were black, with woolly- hair, the descendants of Ham. So far as the color is concerned, the black race was then partly as they are to-day. History re¬ peats itself, Csesar's Iovq was so great for the Egyptian that he forsook his wife and one son at Rome for Cleopatra, and dwelt in Egypt, for Cleopatra's- person. She took up with Csesar to save her kingdom from the Romans. Csesar loved her so that he tried to carry her to Rome. She followed him with her ships and astrologist as far as Ethiopia. She was discouraged by her astrologist to go further. So she returned to Egypt with young Csesar. When Csesar gets to Rome he goes to the senate and Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 29 tries to have a law passed, that a Roman can have as many wives as he pleases, and for him (Caesar) to marry such as Cleopatra. At this time, Caesar had two sons named Caesar, one by Cleo¬ patra and the other by his wife at Rome. When this move was made, it aroused the senate, and spread like wildfire throughout the Roman empire. Though he was king, the public sentiment was against him and they planned to kill him. His wife could not now endure his actions. Julius Caesar, the legitimate son, was now twelve years old. History repeats itself. Humanity to-day is what it always has been. Amalgamation, intermarrying and equal association, all of the same color and rank, have always been permitted by kingdoms and are to-day. But to agitate inter¬ marrying between the white and black races has always proven death to the agitator. Although concubinage from the fair to the blacks has always unlawfully existed, as it does to-day, it never has been tolerated from the blacks to the fair (or whites), and is not to-day. Some of the floating ranks married them, and do to¬ day, but as a rule they are colored and not the royal families. This trick of Caesar's caused the Roman empire to corispire against him. They claimed him to be a curse to Rome. The con¬ spiracy was perfected by Brutus and Cassius. Brutus with dagger in hand disguised, stabbed Caesar through the heart. He tlied, and there was great applause for the act. He then held the throne un¬ til Julius Caesar Jr. became of age to rule. By this time, Marc Antony had become famous as a Roman general, and was adding kingdoms to the Roman empire continual¬ ly. His name as a conqueror had spread throughout the world. Marc Antony and Julius Caesar II, had planned for the kingdom of Egypt, with all the Roman empire. Cleopatra was aware of it. At this time, all the kingdoms of Africa had been taken, except Egypt. It was the greatest fort of all Afrioa. Liberia had already been captured by Marc Antony, and Ethiopia by an Idomean king, ar descendant of Shem, by the name of Ahasuerus, whose kingdom spread from India to Ethiopia. By all these surrounding 30 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder destructions, Cleopatra saw that her kingdom was doomed, and she took all the precaution possible with herself and all her astrol- ogists. Her older brother had appealed to Rome because Caesar had deprived him of the heirship to the throne of Egypt, and had given it to Cleopatra. His wife, who was his sister, Cleopatra had had murdered. Julius Caesar was a stanch enemy to her, for the way she ruined his father. Marc Antony and all of his chief men of war were now at Tarsus. So Marc Antony sends ambassadors to tell Cleopatra to meet him at Tarsus, to answer the charge brought against her. Tarsus was a city inhabited by one of the twelve tribes of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, which had formed an alliance with Rome. Alexandria, Egypt, at this time, was prin¬ cipally inhabited by the tribe of Judah, which had formed an al¬ liance with Egypt. After Cleopatra had received Marc Antony's message, she spent her time in preparing herself for trial, by using all the precaution that could possibly be obtained from the wise men and astrologists of her kingdom. She knew that she was rul¬ ing in the richest kingdom of the world. But she saw that it was doomed. However, she prepared her ships and overlaid them with gold and silver; her oars were prepared likewise: the sails of her ships were purple bordered with gold, the upper decks were over¬ laid with silver, and her oarlocks with the same. The ends of the beams, forward and aft, of her ships, were overlaid with gold. She then selected from her kingdom the costliest perfumery known in that day. She next selects the finest maidens through¬ out her entire kingdom. Her body guards were selected who were her own men and waiting men. (Remember, the treasure of Egypt was at that time, worth 750,000 Egyptian talents, which is worth $88,800,000,000.) Cleopatra arrayed herself in purple and linen trimmed with gold and decorated with pearls and diamonds. She wore in her ears two of the finest pearls known to that age of the world. They were valued at two hundred and fifty thou¬ sand dollars. She then gathered from the treasure of her kingdom some of the finest gold and silver vessels that were in all her kino-- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 3T dom. Cleopatra with her crew started out for Tarsus to meet Marc Antony. And as she neared Tarsus the perfume that went from her ships drew the people from the city of Tarsus down by the shore, where her ships had stopped, or tied up, to meet Antony. All of Cleopatra's precaution was to captivate Marc Antony, and she finally succeeded. He became infatuated with her at first sight. He had never seen her before, but had heard very much about her. But the half of her beauty and grandeur had never been told. She was now even more charming than in Caesar's day, and was only twenty-five years old. She knew better how to cap¬ tivate a great man. She succeeded and was never tried. Late in the afternoon Marc Antony prepared a banquet for Cleopatra and her crew; and went to the limits of his kingdom to attract her. She and her crew were invited up. The invitation was accepted. When it was over Antony wanted to know what she thought of it. Cleopatra scoffed at it, and invited him and his staff to come down the next day to a banquet that she would prepare, on the banks near the ships, that would belittle the one which he had given. This startled Antony; because he could not imagine what it could consist of. However, Antony and his staff went down and were seated around the table: but all that he saw were gold and silver vessels. Cleopatra seated herself by the side of Antony. Her ser¬ vant brought in a vessel of vinegar which she had prepared. And she, taking from her ear one of those earrings dropped it into the vessel of vinegar. It immediately dissolved. She then turned it to her mouth and drank, and offered it to Antony and his men, and as she reached for the other, Antony caught her hand, and said "I have seen enough to convince me." They passed the even¬ ing in making love to each other. When she left for Egypt, Marc Antony followed her. He appointed Herod over Judea, one of his captive kingdoms ; and he took up with the Egyptian ; and gave to her the spoils of many captive kingdoms. When he was not at war with other nations, he was with Cleopatra, spending time fish¬ ing, playing dice and having large banquets. Antony had a wife 32 Search Light oil the Seventh Wonder at Rome named Octavia; but he finally forsook her for the Egyp¬ tian. He would always succeed in war and bring the spoils to Cleopatra. Antony begot two sons by her. Everything Cleopatra would ask him for he would give, if the sword could win it. At last, Cleopatra asked him for the Roman empire which he prom¬ ised her, and did attempt to get. Before he declared war against Rome, he had Cleopatra array herself on a throne before the palace; and her son Csesar, the son of Julius Csesar I., sat at her feet on the base, and Alexander and Ptolemy, the sons of An¬ tony, sat at her right and left. (These boys were mulattoes.) Then the gates of the palace were opened before the people. But to verify his love for the queen and to prove that he had forsaken his wife at Rome, and abandoned her and the Roman empire for¬ ever, he proclaimed, before all the people, Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, Cyrus, Liberia and Collosyria in conjunction with her son Caesar. He gave his son Alexander the kingdoms of Armenia, Media and Parthia. To Ptolemy he gave the kingdoms of Syria, Phenicia and Cilicia. Soon after this, the war broke out between Antony and Csesar of Rome (both idolatrous kingdoms). Julius Csesar in preparing for this war used all the precaution possible. He had already subdued all the kingdoms of the world; all that were not conquered by the sword2 took the oath of alliance to Rome. The ten tribes of Israel which lived in Tarsus, Samaria and Galilee were allied to Rome. The Phenicians, Idomeans and all Eastern and Southern Asia, who were the descendants of Shem, and also the European continent, or the descendants of Japheth, helped Csesar of Rome. Marc Antony and Cleopatra prepared their ships of war with horses and chariots. Antony did not want the Queen to go to the battlefield; but to stay in Egypt, and for him to take her men of war. But she suggested that her soldiers would not fight unless they saw their Queen. The astrologist thought it best for the Queen to stay: but she did not want Antony to leave her, because she felt her kingdom doomed, and did not know but what he*might prove false to her in such a time, and go to his own peo- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 33 pie in Rome. So they agreed to let her go. They set sail to meet Caesar with all his men of war from sea to sea. Cleopatra arrayed herself, accompanied by all her body guards. Antony in his ship and all the ships of war met Caesar. They pitched battle. Late in the afternoon it was raging. The groans of the battle field, and the clashing of the swords and sabers, became so terrific and heartrending that Cleopatra could not stand it. So she got into her ship and fled to Egypt. When the Egyptian warriors saw Cleopatra leaving by sea they followed. Antony seeing the Queen and the Egyptian warriors leaving gave way and went also from a battle he had almost won. He had been defeated for the first time in his history as a warrior. It grieved him very much. But for Cleopatra's sake, he pursued the Queen to Egypt; arriving there, he could not find her in the palace. She had hidden among the tombs of the dead. Antony mistrusted her disfavor in his de¬ feat; he went to the summer house where he and Cleopatra had spent many pleasant hours. A messenger came, sent by Cleopatra, to tell Antony that she had committed suicide. Antony grieved over the news and did not care to live, if she was dead, and handed his sword to his slave and told him to plunge it through his heart. Owing to the love the slave had for his master, rather than to obey the command, he plunged it through his own heart and fell, rolling in his own blood. Antony stood and gazed at the terrible scene. Then taking the sword from the body of the slave, he plunged it in his own heart and fell mingling his blood with the slave's. Just as he was about to give up the ghost, another messenger came, bearing the news that Cleopatra was not dead but was among the tombs of the kings (which was walled in by a very high wall, and the gate was sealed). Antony revived, opened his eyes and bade them carry him where she was. She was there hiding the treas¬ ure of her kingdom, which she saw doomed in the hands of the Romans. She was in great trouble. When the servants arrived with Antony they found her there, accompanied by some of her trusty maidens. But the gate was sealed and they could enter only 34 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder by using a long ladder and ropes. So they drew Antony s bod} up with long ropes and lowered it over the wall to the Queen. He saw her alive and they communed together. He soon died. Cleo¬ patra had him buried among the kings of Egypt; his body was embalmed at a very great cost, and a monument erected that cost in Egyptian coin two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Csesar and his army had pursued them as far as Alexandria; then went back to Rome to prepare for new engagements. It was necessary to make thorough preparations and plan well to enter the city by force of arms, for it was walled in. After finishing Antony's body, Cleopatra spent the remaining time in preparing to shield herself from being carried to Rome in shame and disgrace. She preferred death rather than be carried to Rome in disgrace, as she knew Csesar would do. So she had all the most poisonous serpents in her kingdom collected. She would have them bite prisoners whom she had in Egypt under sentence of death, to find which produced the easiest death. She came to the conclusion that among all, the little reptile the asp, produced death quickest and apparently with the least pain. So she had him reserved by one of her chief servants in readiness when Csesar arrived. If she was unsuccessful in captivating him as she did his father and Marc Antony to save her kingdom she would commit suicide. After Csesar had finished his plans, he started out for Egypt with his chief men of war. He goes to Alexandria and finds the gates open; and the people moaning full of despair. They felt and saw their everlasting doom. Csesar conversed with some of the leading men of the city, com¬ plimenting them on the fine art and architecture of their city, and said that the library was an unequalled work of art. When he entered the gate, he found the people lying prostrate on the ground moaning and weeping, and they continued to weep. Csesar could not get to the palace of Egypt because the gates were shut. So he sent two of his officers to bear the Queen a message; but she was in the tombs and the gates were sealed. She had just finished Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 35 with Marc Antony's body. Caesar's plan was to operate through his officers so that he might capture her alive. He feared that if she saw him she would commit suicide and the people of Rome would not get a chance to see her for sport. But Cleopatra was aware of all this. She was accompanied by two maidens in the tombs when the messengers talked with her through the crevices of the large gate. Proculeius was the messenger who had private orders to get Cleopatra in his hands but she would not admit him through the gate, and refused to surrender herself, although she talked with him on the outside for a considerable time. She would occasionally ask that the kingdom might go to her children, but he told her to put all her hopes in Caesar. After he had care¬ fully taken in the situation of the place, he reported to Caesar, who immediately sent Gallus to speak to her, and attract her attention in conversation, while Proculeius would slide over the walls by the use of a ladder which he had convenient; coming on her un¬ expectedly, he might take her alive. As Gallus and the Queen were engaged in conversation Proculeius entered by the use of a ladder the same window which Marc Antony had been lowered through to the tombs. Proculeius was followed by two other offi¬ cers who had also been previously arranged. As they drew near her, one of the maidens saw them and screamed, "O thou un¬ fortunate Cleopatra, thou art taken." As the Queen turned her head, she saw Proculeius and seized her dagger which she always wore in her girdle, and would have stabbed herself, had not the officer ran quickly and took her by the waist. He said, "You harm yourself and Caesar tooa graceful way of showing his goodness and clemency, at the same time forcing her dagger from her hand and shaking her clothing for fear that she had poison in them. They reported to Caesar at Alexandria that they had captured her alive. So he sent one of his freedmen to take her to the palace and cau¬ tioned him to guard her carefully, to prevent her from making any attempt on her life; and also to treat her kindly. He also entreated Epaphroditus, the freedman, and Proculeius to ask her 36 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder what she desired of him. The next day Csesar entered Egypt and met a tribunal which he had previously arranged for his mes¬ sengers. Proculeius reported the Queen's request, which was to be allowed the privilege to complete Marc Antony's tomb. He granted it, and she spared no cost. Csesar did not want to see her until her mourning days were over. As he had the bird caged, he saw no need to hurry. When he entered Egypt he found them lying all prostrate on the ground in despair and sorrow; they knew that they and their posterity were doomed for centuries to come. After her days of mourning were over, he started for the palace chamber with decency, as he had her safe; after stating his great desire to see her, he asked permission that he might be ad¬ mitted to her chamber, at the same time trying to conceal the vengeance and rage he had for her. He was admitted and found her lying on a little bed in a very simple manner; her dress was composed of a single tunic or gown: when he entered, she arose immediately and threw herself at his feet horribly disfigured; her eyes almost dissolved by weeping and her bosom full of wounds and bruises which she had inflicted, when Antony was brought to her in a dying condition; he revived long enough to tell her to do herself no harm, but to save her life and kingdom, providing she could do so with honor; his breath was continually growing fainter and in a dying whisper he added, for her to be on her guard against the traitors of her own court as well as Caesar's; he had just finished these words, when the faint spark of his life was ex¬ tinguished. Yet she still showed marks of former elegance and gracefulness, although she was almost dying. But she failed to impart to the young victor the same passion she had formerly in¬ troduced in Caesar's and Antony's days. The walls of her chamber were lined with the portraits of Julius Caesar and she would refer to them as "my lord, the father of the young victim;" "he who adopted you as his successor to the Roman crown, to whom I owe my crownalso to attract him, 'she drew from her bosom love letters, that she had previously arranged there, which his father Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 37 had written to her; she would read them most affectionately and comment on them at the proper time with mourning exclamations and passionate glances; but she failed to succeed for her charm¬ ing days had passed. Caesar seemed to have no affection for her, nor her conversation; although he exhorted her to take courage and tried to assure her of his good intentions, she marked his cool¬ ness and saw no good in it. However, she thanked him for the compliments Proculeius had made in his name, which he repeated in person; she said to him in retern that she would deliver to him all the treasures of the kings of Egypt and would put into his hands an inventory of all the movable jewels and revenues. Selucas, one of her treasurers who was present proclaimed that she had concealed the most valuable effects ;he insulted her so that she arose ran to him and dealt him several blows on the face; she then turned to Csesar and said "You must excuse me, as you have decided to visit me and have seen fit to console me in my sad con¬ dition. I am still mistress of my own domestic: and he should not accuse me in your presence of hiding or retaining women's jewels to adorn such a miserable princess as I. Here is a present for your sister, Octavis, and your wife, Livia, hoping by their meditation that you will be induced to deal favorably with an un¬ fortunate princess." She took from her ears those two pearl ear¬ rings valued at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; from her arms a pair of bracelets all set with diamonds, and handed them to Csesar, for his wife and sister; he was exceedingly glad to see this and hear her talk that way: not doubting that the love of life caused her to act in this way. He told her that she might dispose or reserve the remaining part of her jewelry as she saw fit. After assuring her of the generosity and magnificence that he was pre¬ paring for her, he withdrew, believing that he had deceived her, but he had simply deceived himself; not doubting that Csesar would make her an ornament tral and physical de¬ stroyer, a curse that was not known to the antediluvian world, but a curse the devil invented to rob man of his body, since he already had his soul; the devil well knew that God could not save a man's soul without his body, for the soul is the keeper of the body: he knew also that if the body was not destroyed, there was hope of God making terms with it. To off set the doctrine thai the new prince was preaching before the flood, and to let man know that He (God) wanted him both soul and body (although at this time there was no heaven prepared for man), God, for Enoch's strict and perfect life in the world, took him up in their presence both soul and body to his reserve; it was only a figura¬ tive ascension: from this the devil set in to rob him of his body. After the flood the seed of the man (Egyptians) took the lead in idolatry, the cultivation of vineyards and wine drinking. The seed of the woman (the Gentile), Greece and Rome fell in line. The colored races also followed: but the eye of God was on the primitive man and the seed of the woman. The devil told the wo¬ man that in course of time he would be exterminated; the devil's game was to lead him into idolatry and grieve the Great Spirit and He would allow him to destroy him so that the prophecy he made to the woman would be fulfilled. At this time, the primitive man, the black woolly-haired race (the Egyptian), had soared so high into idolatry that God sent a message to them by the descend¬ ant of Shem; he was not a Gentile, for they were the direct seed of the woman, and were in the same condition, cared nothing for God, were given to much wine and worshiped idols; but the mes¬ sage went to the Egyptian, Pharaoh; who asked who was God (Exod. 5:1-5). The Nile river was one of their gods and at a time when the Nile failed to water -the land, the king of Egypt threw his gavel at it. For this act, they burned his eyes out. The devil's chief fort was in Egypt; he already had power over the local forces of the world, given him by Adam: the vineyard was his; He had power over the moral and physical forces of the world Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 69 given him by Noah; and in Egypt he arranged his throne. He had power to make the Nile overflow or not overflow; he had power to make the seas boil and send up vapor and make it rain or not rain; he had power to cause a whirlwind, or not cause a whirlwind; in fact he had power over all nature, except the prime forces of the world and he could remove them only at the com¬ mand of God. Lucifer, the devil, to carry out his prophecy, used these forces to make him prosperous, viz., drunkenness and idol¬ atry : Satan failed in his first attempt because God would not let him touch man, and God brought him through the flood. He failed to get permission to exterminate him at the Tower of Babel. So the devil reserved the scene and made him prosperous in idol¬ atry that he might become offensive in the nostrils of his Creator and He would permit him to put his hand on him and exterminate him (the primitive man) that they might then have a fair or white world. Satan partly succeeded in his attempt. The devil's aim was if he could not exterminate him, he would get power enough to wipe him from society, to cut him off from all civiliza¬ tion and make him a heathen and a slave and train him that God was unjust in making him and that he has no soul, and confuse him so that it would be impossible for God to save him; then God would allow him, or give him permission to make his prophecy true. Also by closing him up in ignorance and superstition, he would curse God and die. The sons of God met for the third time on the primitive man, as he was the ideal of God's handiwork, and the prime force of all the world. Satan also met (see Job 2:1-7) and the Great Spirit, or God, said to Satan, "Whence comest thou?" Satan said, "From thine idol, the primitive man" (or the seed of the primitive man. the Egyptian). "Hast thou considered him?" "I have," replied the devil, "he is an idolater of the highest type and a leader,of all the nations. As I told Thee in the beginning, he ought to be ex¬ terminated." Satan also added, "If Thou wilt allow me to touch his person, I will prove it to Thee: and he will curse Thee to they Jd Search Light on the Seventh Wonder face. Skin for skin, all that a man hath will be given for his life. Let me put forth my hand and touch his bones, and Thou wilt agree with me.'' God saith to Satan, "He is your servant; he hath given himself to you, but spare his life, or save his life" (Job 2:1-7). There was no such man ever lived as Job; this name re¬ fers to the primitive man or the seed of the primitive man. It was a sealed prophecy pointing to the black, woolly-haired race. Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet (Job 2:7-9). The second touch referred to ifl this book of Job, refers to the overthrow of Egypt. The whirlwind destroying Job's stock refers to the combined forces, or ruling powers of the world, with Julius Csesar the Roman at the head, invading Egypt and destroying as they went the wealth and splendor of that country. The fire referred to was the burning of that library and all Egypt. The slaughter of his sons and daughters referred to was the slaughter of the inhabitants; the messengers left to tell the story referred to the captives that Julius Csesar took and led or sold into unlimited slavery, and the rest were driven back into the deserts and swamps in interior Africa: the whirlwind referred to in the destruction of his sons and daughters, and the four corners of his house referred to the overthrow of Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia and the land of Judea and the captives only left for slaves, to tell the story of their past splendor: the sitting down among the ashes, or on the ground and scraping his wounds, referred to the inhabitants of Egypt when Csesar arrived with his armies and found them all on the ground, rolling in the dust and ashes; some belonging to royal families, were lying flat on their faces weeping and wailing over their impending doom, which meant damnation to them and all their posterity. "Why don't you curse God and die? You might just as well, for your time is out," was the ex¬ pression made by the Romans, the Grecians, or Athenians. The Gentile, the seed of the woman, the rib that was taken from the primitive man's side (his wife) said, "Curse God and die"'(Job Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 71 2:9-10). In all their grief, the reflection of the past was very- visible. The wise, the prudent men said, "We have been warned by the prophets of God all the way down to now. But we did not heed what the prince we served would do to us, but to-day we see," Job (the Egyptians), the seed of the man, said to the Gentiles, the seed of the woman, "You talk foolishly; shall we not receive wages from whom we serve? If we had been serving God we would have expected better things; but since we were not, we are get¬ ting a just reward for our works from the one whom we have been serving." In all of their calamity, they did not put the charge on God in words; morally speaking, it was the moral and physical man damned: the soul had already been taken by the prince of the air, and now he was in pursuit of the moral and physical man; and he succeeded in getting it. Job sinned not with his lips (Job 2:10), for he made an open acknowledgment of the justness of his reward, for the violation of the moral and physical laws; they were receiving a just pay from their new prince whom they were serving. But what was so lamentable the sorrow had just begun with their prince, the devil. The three friends that came to visit Job, and sat seven days without uttering a word, are the three colored races of the world that stand and view the seed of the primitive man and know them not, but wonder as to his origin, wonder at his condition: they peruse his country from whence he came, and see signs of past splendor and happiness: they peruse history, but by the name he now bears, he is effaced off the pages of history, and there is n<7 trace of him. They meet, they adjourn, time after time, with th< problem unsolved. Among all the nations of the world they havt examined him all kinds of ways, to see whether he is a real man, or a beast. They claim that he cannot be a man else he would have a history. And for the want of understanding, they claim him to be a beast with no soul. They claim, if he is a man, how came he in this fix ? He must have committed some great sin against God (read the entire book of Job. It is a sealed prophecy, pointing to 72 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder the primitive man), to cause him to be in this condition. 1 he seed of the woman, his wife, said, "Why don't you curse God and die, and get out of the way; for you are a disgrace to the world and all society and we are ashamed of you." But we cannot get clear of him, we have tried every way we know; and the more we try, the firmer he appears to be; and he is here yet. How came he in this fix? How came he here? We don't know, for we have no history of him. Some of the colored nations know that they sprang from him, because they resemble him. But on account of his con¬ dition and his being without history, they are ashamed of him and deny their kinship. Job opened his mouth and cursed the day wherein he was born (Job 3:1-26). Job, or the primitive man, the Egyptians, cursed the days wherein they were born; that is, they charged God with making them and putting them in the world to be in that condition. This same charge is brought against God by the black race to-day all over the world in all sorts of languages and ex¬ pressions of blasphemy and infidelity—mourning, sighing, lament¬ ing, swooning and asking God to let the days perish wherein they were born. His torture is so lamentable that his posterity cannot remain in his society and be happy, because his sores and wounds are so tormenting; Satan has touched him to the bone, God has nothing to do with it; he is being paid by the prince he served. His posterity need not think that they can escape, for they are doomed to follow in like manner. The only way the devil could succeed in capturing the world, was to first capture the main pillar, or the prime positive force; he knew if he could succeed and lead him into idolatry, he would have the whole fort at his command, and God would surely let him touch him. To destroy a country, you must first destroy its fort, and the country is at your mercy. The law and dominion was first given to Adam, for the soul. Secondly it was given to Noah for the body, both primitive men from whom all nations sprang. Satan knew that if he could suc¬ ceed in leading the primitive man into captivity and reduce him Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 73 to heathenism and superstition he would be able to confuse the entire world as to their origin: and religion would be but a sham, then he would have the whole world. He knew that if the positive, or primitive man stood all nations of the earth would have some satisfactory source to look to, as their origin and God would get the homage due him by all nations; and his kingdom would stand forever. The present religion in all forms will do for society, which the devil knows. But until the primitive man reaches hither his hand in .his right mind, and partakes of the Tree of Life, and gives to all his posterity, so that they may eat and live: and takes from the hands of Lucifer, the devil, the power that God gave to the primitive man; that is, all the local forces of the world which the devil is using on all his posterity to make their lives bitter and miserable, the nations will continue to grope in darkness and superstition. There are great discoveries being made daily, but the discoveries are ignorant of the fact that the devil is trying to prove that the world can go on without the aid of the primitive man, and they do not need him in it. He is further trying to con¬ vince the world by the new discoveries, from the sanitarian to wireless telegraphy, that man has control of those forces which were in the possession of Adam; it is done to content the restless world, for they know, that there is something wrong; and Satan is doing all in his power to keep hid. But diseases of all descrip¬ tions, crimes of all descriptions, the length of life, and the con¬ fused religions are betraying him daily all over the savage and civilized worlds. But he pays off all who work for him in differ¬ ent forms; and God has nothing to do with it. For God only keeps account of the righteous. But the wicked flourish, or don't flourish, they pass as the green herb. Job, a perfect man and upright before God (Job i :i), refers to the primitive man in his primitive state (Adam). Allowing the devil to touch his belongings, was to give Adam his freedom by leaving him alone with his helpmeet. The devil communed with her and through that communion, he destroyed everything the 74 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder primitive man possessed. Job sinned not with his lips: is the in¬ fidelity in the primitive or black man's heart in regard to his Creator; in regard to his origin, according to his training, from the church to the lowest slum on earth; and it has made him a drone in the world—a training gotten up by the devil to make him a slave. He that believes or claims the black woolly-haired man to have sprung from any other source, except-that he is the direct line, and is himself the primitive man, is guilty of denying the written history of what he was made: is guilty of denying all science which proves it, and is a gross blasphemer against God. He that claims that the black man sprang from the white man who is feminine, has denied the written history of man's origin, denied science that proves it, and has said to God, "You are unjust and used partiality in creation," because they both are rational be¬ ings, and some are inferior on account of color. The white man owes his being to the bleached, or fair woman; the bleached wo¬ man owes her being to the bone from the black woolly-haired man's side. The colored races owe their being to the black man and his bone, or the black man and fair woman: and by this, of one blood hath God made all nations to dwell upon the face of the earth. IX. SEARCH LIGHT ON ABRAHAM, AND SCIENCE ON THE MORAL AND FIGURATIVE CHURCH. For near three hundred years after the flood, the Great Creator had no communication with mankind at all, not even the moral man, because the devil had robbed man morally: therefore the "prince shortened their days, from eight and nine hundred years to three score and ten, and from that to an average of thirty and five years. It is he whom man works for that continues to reduce his wages, or the length of life. Wine and malt liquors were the instrument of the devil to rob man of his moral and physical stand¬ ing with his Creator. For this cause, God had no one after the flood to deal with on earth. On account of the moral and physical standing of man at that time, there was no hope of a Redeemer for man, for God could not send his Spirit unto the family or person that was a physical wreck, as a representative of the prim¬ itive man who was without fault before God. The foreknowledge of God saw that the seed of the primitive man through whose loins the Redeemer must be born, had forsaken him and had been robbed of both soul and body. God had. promised a Redeemer through the primitive man that would bring light to the Gentiles (seed of the woman) ; that is, the primitive man should redeem his original standing and take from the hands of the devil the power he gave him in the creation of the world: that he should reclaim his original stand and give to his posterity whom he damned both body and soul in the two periods of the world and will forever be until he puts forth his hand in his right mind and partakes of the Tree of Life and gives to his posterity: for this 75 76 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder cause God accepted a compromise with the physical or moral man, not for the soul but the moral man. God would not accept a compromise for the soul; although the devil offered several, and is offering them now, concerning the creation of Adam and Eve. But God told Satan, "Get thee hence, for it is written that thou shalt serve the Lord thy God and him only, and thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God for a compromise." The compromise was for the moral man: and that was never accepted until the angel searched the ethereal heavens and earth and found a man with a good physical and moral standing. He was neither positive nor negative, neither could the angel (God's message) find such among the positive and negative forces, they were such idolaters. The angel found one among the descendants of Shem (col¬ ored) in the person of Abraham, in whom the colors of the posi¬ tive and negative forces were blended, as were his ancestors be¬ fore the flood. He did not use wine nor did he worship idols, al¬ though his people did. The angel said God did not want him to stay among them. Abraham's moral standing made him a very powerful man, physically and mentally. As the antediluvians were, so was Abraham. He was the son of Terah who had three sons, Abraham, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begat Lot. When God saw these virtues, and he among idolatrous people, the angel called him and said unto him, "Get ye out from among your peo¬ ple, country and kindred, for they are idolaters (see Gen. 12 :i-6) and go to the land that I will show thee, for God has found favor with thee for thy integrity, and wants to make a covenant with thee and wants to arrange a figurative church to train the people from wine drinking and worshipping Baal. There is to be born a Deliverer in this world to save all nations from the sins of strife and hatred. But at the present stage of humanity God's spirit cannot enter them, neither has God a house on earth to live in; for the house God built for a residence the keepers let it out to other husbandmen and God has no place in which to reside, in the world." The angel told Abraham that if he would take the Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 77 figurative church in charge, and train the people, he would pro¬ tect him in all his undertakings, make him prosperous, give him a great name in the world, and the land which the Canaanites then possessed, a rich land, he would give it to him, and his seed forever and in him would all the nations of the earth be blessed; that is, he need not be so strict on the color line; which was to say "You are neither positive nor negative." He also added that he need not refrain from breeding among them, for there was where he wanted the training: but to train his brood from wine drinking and worshipping idols, and not to neglect to offer up sacrifice from his flock, which might consist of the blood of pigeons and doves, and the ashes of heifers. This would suffice for the figurative, or moral church, to train his seed and all other nations that would unite with them: but for him to redeem man's soul. He (God) had no pleasure in them; and that since they could not atone, he might defend his church with the sword: and as long as he kept the moral and physical laws that he had given them, he would succeed, he w)uld conquer, for they were physi¬ cally weak from drinking; but whenever he partook of their habit, they were liable to conquer him. This church was to restore man. The church for the spiritual man cannot be defended by the sword, if it is defended, or restored at all, it must be with the same weapon by which man fell. Abraham's nativity was in the land of Ur of the Chaldees, near the isles of the Gentiles. The angel sent him from there to the land of Canaan adjoining Egypt with the exception, of the desert and Red sea (later the Suez Canal). The next message Abraham received from God, was to go down into Egypt. Abra¬ ham was physically able to defend the church with the sword (Gen. 14:10-17), and Abraham accepted the journey, with the un¬ derstanding of taking his brother Nahor and his nephew, Lot. His brother Haran died in the land of the Chaldees, and Nahor took his niece to wife, who was Haran's daughter. Abraham took his half-sister: whom Terah his father begot by one of the fair 78 Search Light 011 the Seventh Wonder daughters of Japheth (Gentiles). Sarah was fair also. After Abraham took his sister Sarah to wife, she was numbered with Terah's family as his daughter-in-law. Abraham, or at least his family, were not to intermarry with other nations unless they were circumcised: and they could only become circumcised by agreeing to become a subject to the Abrahamic creed and by this, they could marry other nations, and be guarded against idolatry, wine drinking, and disputing over vineyards. All nations that would agree to be circumcised could become a member of the Abrahamic family. He and his seed were forbidden to join other nations because they worshipped Baal and would destroy the moral church. Abraham and wife, or half-sister, Nahor and wife, or niece, and Lot their nephew, went on their journey. Later Lot took to wife his uncle Nahor's daughter; they kept the marry¬ ing in the family. Lot lost his wife in Sodom where she turned to a pillar of salt for idolatry. Lot's two daughters rather than break the Abrahamic law and custom, made their father an idol¬ ater by getting him drunk, and eath of them bare a son unto him (Lot) (Gen. 19:30-36) and his daughters would not marry among the other nations. Abraham was to breed a peculiar peo¬ ple from the positive and negative forces, or the black and white races. Those who were not circumcised, could not marry in the Abrahamic family. Before Lot went to Sodom, he and Abraham journeyed to¬ gether to Canaan and they both became very rich. Lot and his herdsmen became idolaters, having imbibed the principles of the Canaanites who were planting vineyards. They began to raise wine and relish it and worship idols like the Canaanites. This dis¬ pleased Abraham so much that he told Lot to take all that he possessed and depart from him and go among the people he im¬ itated ; that was, to go into the plains of Jordan and the cities So¬ dom and Gomorrah; else God would suffer the prince to destroy them all. So they divided and Lot went into the plains of Jordan and stayed in the wicked city of Sodom with a people whom he Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 79 liked better, and left Abraham in Canaan. The angel was much pleased with Abraham for this act of integrity and promised him and his seed the entire land of Canaan. And Abraham dwelt in Hebron in the plains of Mamre (Gen. 13:1-18). When all the wicked kings throughout the country made war against Sodom for spoil, Lot and all that he had, with the other idolaters were taken captive. When Abraham heard this, he was much grieved at his brother's son, and collected his host and went where Lot • • • * was in captivity; he pitches battle with Lot's captors,and re¬ captures Lot and all his riches. But Abraham did not take him in his family. Later, Lot and his wife returned to Sodom and became captives to the same idolatrous habits (Gen. 14:1-24). Abraham had never stooped to idolatry and wine drinking, there¬ fore, he was a very powerful man. Every wicked kingdom that he would war against, he would succeed in capturing, but it was only the moral and physical world. The only kingdom that he dreaded was that of Egypt. The Egyptians were the most power¬ ful nation under heaven at that time; and had the finest astrolo- gist and market in the world. When the famine broke out in all the land of Canaan, the angel warned Abraham to go down into Egypt. Abraham's wife was very fair (white bleached bone) and he, knowing the spirit of his wife concerning the Egyptian, feared trouble especially in trying to secure a place for her to stop at night; as the whites and blacks did not mix any more then, than they do now, especially the women. The famine continued to op¬ press, and the angel continued to tell him to take his wife and go down in Egypt. Abraham's wife was a Gentile and from the isles of the Gentiles, but was his half-sister (Abraham was colored). Pie knew that the Egyptians would want to know why, or how came he by her; he feared they would slay them both. So they agreed to claim to be brother and sister and the charge would not be upon them, but their parents; and he could continue to accom¬ pany her about without being molested or made ashamed: he could then get a place for them to stay. Abraham and Sarah 8o Search Light on the Seventh Wonder did not have the same mother but had the same father (Gen. 20:12-13). However, Abraham and his wife went down into Egypt, since the famine pressed them so (Gen. 2:10-14) and were treated kindly and given servants. He brought one maid with him when he returned for a maid servant. Abraham had great riches and he went there to trade. The success of the crops of Egypt did not depend on the rain they received, they had but very little rain. Their crops depended, on the overflow of the Nile at certain seasons of the year, caused by the rainfall in other countries. Hagar, the Egyptian maid whom Abraham brought from Egypt, was a black woman with woolly hair. He kept her in his tent with his wife Sarah, and she was adopted in the family; which was a new thing to the world at that age. But the mes¬ senger was courting the positive and negative forces through Abraham. Sar^h was of the seed of the woman, a Gentile. Hagar was of the seed of the man, an Egyptian: that was as near as they could or would meet: for the prime positive and the prime nega¬ tive were bitter enemies socially then, as they are to-day. By this maiden the angel courted them for the moral church. History re¬ peats itself; and science preserves the history of the rises and falls of negative and positive forces. While Abraham was living in Canaan doing well, Lot and all his family were in Sodom worshipping idols and indulging in wine drinking. The Great Spirit withdrew his hand from Sodom and delivered it to the prince, to do as he chose with it, and he only chose to destroy. Before God withdrew from the city the angel notified Abraham, on account of his faithfulness, because he had a nephew Lot living there who was wicked (morally and physically). Abraham offered numerous terms with the angel of God to spare the city for Lot's sake; but the city could not bear the slightest inspection: the entire place was corrupt and God was going to deliver it into the hands of their king whom they had been serving and let him pay them off. The angel said to Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 81 Abraham, "For your sake, and yours only, not Lot's sake, for he is an idolater of the worst form and all his family are drunkards, since you have proven faithful in all things and for your sake, I will preserve Lot and family." The angel said to Abraham, "If there had been one righteous person in that city, I would not have had need to come to you for the city would have already preserved itself with one righteous person. Since none are there and I know that you had a friend there, and for your righteousness' sake, Abraham, I will warn Lot and his family to leave the city and not look back" (Gen. 18:1-33). But Lot's wife, a lover of idolatry, looked back and was turned to a pillar of salt and is there to-day. When the other members of the family had gotten out of the city, the Great Spirit gave Lucifer, the devil, the command to take charge; and the angel took its flight to its own habitation, iand the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah went up in flames. The devil, the prince of this world, confused the local matter of the positive and negative forces, such as the decomposed filth and pulp of their wine presses: and all putrefied matter became confused at the command of their author; and they would ignite in the heavens above and in the earth beneath and the reports were like many thunders: and fire rained down from the heaven above and came up from the earth beneath until there was not root nor branch left of those cities. However, Lot and his two daughters con¬ tinued their wine drinking and idolatry and were numbered among the transgressors. Abraham did what he could for his nephew Lot; and the angel saved Lot from the same curse that he saved Noah's family from. When Abraham brought the Egyptian maid from Egypt and adopted her in the family, Satan immediately became uneasy (be¬ cause Sarah was barren) over his plans, and saw far ahead at once. He saw a bringing together of the positive and negative forces on a different line to perfect the figurative will of God. As the angel had promised Abraham that through his seed all nations would be blessed. Satan had already established the fact that it 82 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder was against the will of God for different colors to mix; and these principles had been established among all nations; and to see Abraham a moral servant of God, just the reverse, made him very restless, so he rigs a plan in Egypt to put them in slavery. The angel caused a sleep to fall on Abraham and showed him what the devil would do for his seed for the sole purpose of destroying the moral or figurative church. "Because of amalgamation with the Egyptians, the devil has arranged to lead your seed into idolatry and capture them and make them serve as slaves four hundred and fifty years." But the purpose of God was the positive force and it had to go this way, and mankind had to be the sufferer be¬ cause he brought it on himself. "For your sake, Abraham, I will bring them out again to Canaan." In Abraham's old age, as his wife Sarah had not borne him any children, he went in unto his handmaid the Egyptian, Hagar, and she conceived and bore him a son, in his eighty-sixth year, by the name of Ishmael. When he was ninety and nine years old his wife Sarah conceived and bore him a son, Isaac. Ishmael was dark or colored: Isaac was fair. Ishmael was thirteen years older than Isaac. After Isaac was born, the angel formed a covenant with Abraham—a creed for the figurative church—to the effect that all his seed and all who would connect themselves with his physical and moral training, should be circumcised; and the youns at eight days old. Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he was circumcised: and all the male of his house were circum¬ cised also (in the flesh of the foreskin). The angel blessed Ishmael and he stayed in the house of Abraham until he was grown. Abraham gave him great riches in cattle, camels, servants, silver and gold and sent him away from Isaac. For after Isaac grew up, they could not agree; and Sarah did not care for him nor his mother: and Hagar left, but the angel sent her back to stay. However, Sarah continued to worry Abraham about Ishmael and Hagar. She claimed that Ishmael wanted to be the equal of Isaaq and he colored and the son qf her handmaid, which Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 83 she never would submit to; and for this cause Isaac and Ishmael could not agree. This worried Abraham much because Ishmael was his firstborn and the son of his old age. He also loved Ishmael because the angel had told him that all his seed would be blessed through him. Abraham made him very rich (Gen. 16:11- 15) since there was no place in all Canaan that Sarah was willing for him to stop, because she wanted it all for her son Isaac and his seed. And she wanted him and his mother out of her sight: this grieved Abraham very much, but to satisfy his wife Abraham took Ishmael and went to sea. He assisted him in building ships for his family, servants and all his cattle of various kinds and sent him away in search of a new country. The angel directed Abra¬ ham as to what way to send him with the promise that he (the angel) would accompany him and guide him to the western shores (which is called to-day the new world). The angel blessed Ishmael in the new country in Abraham's day, and later. There were twelve princes of the tribe of Ishmael when he came to meet Isaac. Since they continued to offer sacrifice to God and dealt mostly in stock raising, and were opposed to wine and strong drink or nursing vineyards, they proposed and covered the whole of the American continent. For their strict obedience to the moral and physical laws, as Abraham their predecessor had taught them, their physical stature could not be surpassed by any of the other nations of the world. When they were fout\d in America their form was in keeping with that of their ancestor— Abraham—and is so to-day with those who obey their old cus¬ toms: that is, the moral and physical laws, the principles of the figurative church. The form of circumcision Abraham kept in his own house. When America was discovered by the fair race, they found the tribes of Ishmael in keeping with the Abrahamic customs with a perfect athletic frame, living in wigwams or tents like their ancestors. They were great huntsmen, skilled in using the Abrahamic quiver and bow, tomahawks, etc. Sarah was of the seed of the woman (Gentile) and could not 84 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder endure Ishmael as Isaac's brother in the sight of all the people. She claimed to Abraham that it reflected on her after Isaac was born because Ishmael was colored. Abraham got Ishmael a fair wife and sent him away after having been circumcised. Under¬ stand what thou readest; history repeats itself. And these things are written that you may not be deceived. Abraham's wife gave him a good deal of trouble in that dark country among those dark people in the land of Canaan; but it was where the angel sent him to stay. The angel was preparing a figurative church and it could not be done with the black nor white races; for they were at dead enmity as equals, especially the positive and negative forces: a hatred that had existed all the way down from the creation of the world, and was renewed after the flood: and is so to the present day. God saw that there was no way under heaven to change that hatred without the atonement of innocent blood, or the changing of the moral and physical man as well as the soul: and to do that it would take a Holy Spirit to quicken the flesh and change the thoughts of the soul. Mankind had to be worked up to this great change by a great moral and physical training. Else there would be no flesh saved from the torture of the body in the physical and moral world, nor from the torture of the soul in the spiritual world. For the prince whom they served has power over the dis¬ obedient matter in both natural and unnatural worlds. But he had not that power until the primitive man gave it him. And unless the primitive man reaches hither his hand and partakes of the Tree of Life and demands that original power from the devil, and gives to his posterity that they may live, they will all likewise perish as they go. They will flourish, or not flourish, but pass as the green herb. Satan caused the figurative church to go into idolatry so that he might get permission to touch it, and it cost the moral church four hundred and fifty years of hard slavery in Egypt under the positive force. Abraham's wife Sarah wanted to see Isaac married before she died as she was getting very old; and she continued to worry Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 85 Abraham about that matter, because she did not want him to marry any of those dark women of that country: to please her, Abraham inquired among his own people in Chaldea near the isles of the Gentiles the land of Ur, and he learned that his broth¬ er Nahor had begotten children by Milcah his wife and niece (they were fair). Abraham then sent his servants on the backs of beasts with great riches in silver and gold to buy his son a wife from among his people. Abraham was at this time living in Canaan, the Holy Land Palestine, the land of Judea. It took his servants many days' journey to go to Chaldea in the land of Ur. They had to go through Samaria and beyond the sea of Galilee to the isles of the Gentiles. However, the servants arrived there and told their mission, saying they were from Abraham their father's brother (or grandfather's brother). When they returned, they brought Rebekah who was Isaac's second cousin the sister of Laban and granddaughter of Nahor, and they were married in Sarah's tent (see Gen. 23:24). Sarah died after Isaac was married. Sarah died at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven and was buried in the upper part of Canaan (in Samaria). At this time, Abraham had not full possession of that country. The sons of Heth the grandson of Ham were still in possession there. They treated Abraham very kindly and he bought from the sons of Heth a portion of the land to bury his wife Sarah. It was a very desirable place and Abraham and all his family were buried there. After Sarah was buried, Abraham took to- wife one of the daughters of Heth (black and woolly-haired) arid begot six sons (Gen. 25:1-5). Abraham lived to be one hundred and eighty-five years old. Just before dying, he divided his personal property with his colored and black children and sent them away. His real estate he gave to Isaac. And the sons he begot by the daughter of Heth owned their own possessions in Samaria, through their mother, before he died. Ishmael having been warned by the angel of the illness of his father, prepared his ships and servants and crossed the great waters and went to Palestine 86 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder or Canaan to pay his last respects to his father, and assist in bury¬ ing him if need be. This was Ishmael's first visit to Palestine since he left Abraham's house. Ishmael was then ninety-eight years old. He had no interest at all in that country except on his father's account. From the torture he and his mother had re¬ ceived from Sarah his father's wife and his brother Isaac on ac¬ count of their color, he did not have any use for Palestine or Canaan. This was why the angel said that he would be a wild man; the angel foreknew that from the torture that Ishmael would receive from the Abrahamic family he would abandon himself from any communication with the world and become a heathen and an inconstant friend to any nation, and his sword would be against all nations (Gen. 16:7-15). After Abraham had helped Ishmael build his ships and provided him with all the necessities of his house, he hugged and kissed him and bade him goodby. Being warned by the angel, Abraham pointed out his route through the Mediterranean sea and by the way of Spain, and told him that the angel would direct him and go with him. Abraham told Ishmael if he was the longest liver, he wanted him to come and help to bury him; and that he (Abraham) wanted Ishmael when he died to be buried in the family burying-ground which he would arrange. He wanted to sleep with his son Ishmael, be¬ cause he was his firstborn; but he exiled him to please his wife Sarah; and he came to what is now called America, and was found to be a very unstable friend and a wild man, very sensitive and quick to apprehend: and so are they to this day. They are trained that way by each other. It came all the way down from Ishmael. It was so when the settlers found America A.D. 1492. Ishmael lived to be one hundred and thirty-seven years old and died in the new world. In accordance with his and Abraham's request which was to sleep together or be buried together in the family burying ground, his twelve sons carried his body to Canaan and interred it by the side of his father Abraham. X. SEARCH LIGHT AND SCIENCE ON ISAAC AND OFF¬ SPRING CULTIVATION OF THE MORAL OR FIGURATIVE CHURCH AND THE INFIDELITY OF REBECCA. After the death of Sarah Abraham married the daughter of Heth (black) by the name of Keturah, in the land of Heth. Then Abraham moved his tents from Hebron near Mamre and went into the land of Heth in the east of Canaan, later known as Sa¬ maria. There Abraham was treated kindly by the sons of Heth. He also arranged the comforts of his old age and at his death he gave Isaac as a possession his real estate. Isaac and Rebecca lived there with all their possessions among the sons of Heth until they (the sons of Heth) were driven out by Isaac and Jacob. Rebecca, Isaac's wife, was barren for she bore him no children until her old age. The angel opened her womb to her surprise and she conceived in a manner that has appeared in all the different changes of the world, and appears even until to-day. Materially, there is nothing new under the sun; and history only repeats it¬ self. These things are more than apt to occur when people think themselves safe and out of danger: so it was with Rebecca. In her conception, she suffered much and from the information she received from her sex, her conception was unusual. She then in¬ quired of the angel as to the cause. He told her, "Because you were barren, you have practiced infidelity to your husband Isaac before he came in unto you: and you have conceived unto them both. The first that went in unto you was a son of Heth (black) and then came your husband Isaac, you have conceived unto him 87 88 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder fair (or white) ; and you have two nations in your bowels. For this infidelity, Esau I hate because he is of an idolatrous nation and not of the seed of Abraham, nor Isaac thy husband. But Jacob I love because he is of the seed of Abraham and of Isaac whose seed I have already blessed." Rebecca kept these things hid and did not reval them to Isaac, for she was condemned. How¬ ever, they both strove together in the womb until they were ma¬ tured. When they were born Esau came first and then Jacob; he was very fair with almost no hair on his head as appears to¬ day as a rule with fair children. Esau had a full growth of hair as is often the rule with colored children to-day. History repeats itself. Esau was a cunning hunter and wore the skins of beast and went abroad. Jacob stayed in tents with his mother. Esau wore a long beard and never shaved, but Jacob did. Esau carried the odor of wild beasts; Jacob did not. Rebecca knew that the angel had told her that Esau was not Isaac's son, that the bless¬ ings were for Jacob because he was the seed of Abraham. Isaac did not know this; but Rebecca knew it: and this was why she prepared Jacob to steal Esau's blessings. Isaac thought that Esau was his firstborn and he wanted to bless him before he died. Jacob hated to take the risk of stealing his brother Esau's blessings. He knew that his brother Esau wore a beard and he did not and feared that his father would feel and find out the trick. Isaac could not tell by their colors because he was blind. But Rebecca knew that if she allowed Esau to take Jacob's blessing, it would offend the angel, and she had to take the risk to keep the bless¬ ing among the seed of Abraham. Rebecca knew that she was the cause of all the misleading: but for the sacredness of motherhood in the figurative church, these things were sealed. Some things have been omitted. On account of the wickedness of man, many things were sealed to preserve the Bible until to-day. It was pre¬ served in a mystery for conditions to reveal. After Rebecca succeeded in getting the birthright or blessing for Jacob, she was satisfied on that line. The next thing she Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 89 wanted, since she and Isaac were getting old, was to see her son Jacob married before she died. She objected to his marrrying any of those Canaanitish women, or any of the daughters of Heth. So they planned and sent him away to the land of Padan-aram to his uncle Laban's to get a wife that was fair, and to hide from the wrath of his brother Esau. Rebecca having known that Esau was not Isaac's son, worried but little about his wife, or at least she did not send him among her people to get a wife. Esau mar¬ ried the daughter of Heth and took her to wife. This displeased Isaac and his wife. And his wife Rebecca suggested that he put her away and marry a. daughter of Ishmael. Esau abandoned his people and pursued the descendants of Ishmael who were then on the isles in the great sea in the Atlantic. He finally abandoned his mother and father as Isaac directed. He then took to wife one of Ishmael's daughters (colored). Esau stayed on the islands and grew very rich (Esau was red all over like a hairy garment, Gen. 25:25). He was colored mulatto with a full head of hair. But to be red all over is misleading and not consistent with the laws of nature now and never has been, unless it's a birth mark and it is not transmittable: it will not now, never has, and never will produce another nation as Esau was. A man's color may be dis¬ figured by birthmarks, he may be darkened by the heat of the sun, but you cannot change his seed to another nation without amal¬ gamation: and by that Esau was changed. The misleading was done by the devil to destroy the purpose of the angel and to con¬ fuse the nations of the earth as he has already done. Esau's de¬ scendants like Ishmael's lived a savage life: his first set of chil¬ dren by the daughter of Heth a Canaanite lived in Canaan. His last wife, who was the daughter of Ishmael, and their descend¬ ants dwelt with the descendants of Ishmael in the new world and amalgamated. The descendants which Esau begot by the daugh¬ ter of Heth took up the slave trade and were known as Ishmaelites, Turks and Arabians. They principally inhabited Turkey and the same character is with them to-day. 90 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder Jacob went east, to his uncle Laban's house, as his mother had directed, to get a wife. Laban had two daughters, Rachel and Leah. Rachel was very fair (white). Leah was tender-eyed (colored or dark). Rachel was the daughter of the wife which he had then. Leah was the daughter of a concubine (black). Leah was his firstborn or oldest daughter. For Jacob to obey his parents, he had to ask for Rachel because she was fair regardless of her age. He could have gotten a wife the color of Leah in his own country, but his parents objected to him marrying a dark woman and this was why they sent him there for a wife. Since Jacob wanted Rachel Laban charged him seven years' work for her. Jacob was a fugitive and he told Laban all his troubles and went to work for Rachel (Gen. 29123). The angel was arranging the forces to bring out God's purpose. When Jacob finished his seven years' work, it was at night; and instead of Laban carrying Rachel unto Jacob to be his wife as he promised, he carried his oldest daughter Leah while it was dark. He also gave her a hand¬ maid by the name of Zilpah who was very dark. When morning came, Jacob saw that his uncle Laban had fooled him, but rather than be disappointed and grieve his parents, he agreed to work another seven years for Rachel, of whom his father and mother would approve because she was fair. At the end of another seven years, Laban gave Rachel to Jacob to wife. He also gave Rachel his own handmaid to be her handmaid. Rachel, his legitimate daughter, was fair and younger than Leah: if Leah had been fair and legitimate, she would have gotten Laban's own handmaid who was trained. Rachel's handmaid was colored, by the name of Bilhah. After Jacob had gotten Rachel Leah was hated in his sight as a wife, and Rachel did not approve of her at all as a wife for him, although her father arranged it. And she continually worried Jacob about her until he came to hate her. Rachel was barren and that made her very disagreeable; and as a rule it holds good to this day. There are two things that cannot be satisfied; yea, there are three, the sea, the grave and a barren woman. Since Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 91 Rachel was disagreeable because she was barren, Jacob continued to go in unto Leah. The angel saw the devil at work to defeat his purpose between Rachel and Leah on the color line: and the angel opened Leah's womb, and she conceived unto Jacob his firstborn; and she called his name Reuben (colored) (Gen. 30:22-25). When this occurred, Leah was happy, because she was being treated very cruelly by Jacob and Rachel, notwithstanding she was his first wife (Gen. 29:31-33). By her conceiving and Rachel being barren she gained Jacob's love or favor; and she conceived again and bore another son unto Jacob and called his name Simeon (colored). She conceived again unto Jacob and called his name Levi: then Leah says, "As bad as I was hated by Rachel and Jacob as a wife, I know by this time, he is sure to love me because I have borne him three sons." And she conceived again and bore Jacob his fourth son: by this time Rachel saw that by Leah's conception unto Jacob his affection had been increased for her and that he spent most of his time in Leah's tent with his children. Rachel further saw that he was losing his love and af¬ fection for her because she bore him no children. Rachel's jeal¬ ousy and enmity increased daily against Leah until she told Jacob that she had rather see him dead than to see him visit Leah's tent. Jacob's reply was that he went to see his children. Rachel said, "My handmaid will bear children unto you and they would look like mine, because she is light and they can be born on my knees. Bilhah is fair and her children will easily pass for mine. I had rather see you go in unto her than for you to go in Leah's tent.'' To please Rachel Jacob went in unto Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, and she conceived and bore a son unto Jacob; and she called him Dan. Rachel was glad and called him her son. Bilhah conceived again unto Jacob and called his name Naphtali. By this time Rachel had attracted his attention from Leah's tent: and she had revenged herself on Leah. Then Leah to revenge Rachel, since she had stopped bearing, gave unto Jacob her handmaid Zilpha in her tent. Jacob went in unto her and she conceived and bore 92 Search Light 011 the Seventh Wonder him a son called Gad (colored). She conceived again and bore another son unto him called Asher. Leah was then happy since she had revenged herself on Rachel and had Jacob in her tent. Rachel had not borne any children, so she continued to worry Jacob until she got him back to her tent. Since they all had stopped bearing and he was getting old he went back to Rachel. In wheat and harvest time, after the wheat had been gathered out of the field, Reuben found a mandrake, an herb that grows in the field with a large long root, something like a potato: it was a root seldom found, owing to its scarcity. It was an herb to cure bar¬ renness of women. When Reuben found it, he knew what it was, since his mother had been using some of the same weed. Reuben brought it to the tent before Jacob had come from the field: when Rachel saw it, she wanted it at once because she was barren and wanted to use it herself. Leah was opposed to her son Reuben letting Rachel have it. However, she agreed to let her have it providing Rachel would agree for Jacob to stay in her tent that night. Rachel consented for the sake of getting the root, since it was so valuable for barren women. When Jacob came from the field Leah carried him to her tent where he spent the night and she conceived again and bore him another son and called him Issachar her fifth son. She conceived again and bore Zebulun her sixth son, and again she bore unto Jacob a daughter; they called her Dinah. After this Leah left off bearing. When Leah had borne Jacob four sons, she left off bearing until she learned of the root of the mandrake which opened her womb and she bore him two more sons and a daughter. After Rachel used the mandrake it opened her womb (the Great Spirit prepares the worm and the bird must go to find it). Jacob went in unto Rachel after she had used the mandrake, and she conceived and bore him a son her first¬ born, and called his name Joseph. He was fair (white bleached bone).; After Joseph was born, Jacob was then willing to go to his father's house (Isaac and Rebecca's) for he now had a fair son by his fair wife which he knew would please them. Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 93 Isaac died at the age of one hundred and eighty years. He was buried by the hands of Jacob and Esau in the land of Heth where Abraham bought land for a burying-ground before he died. Esau begot many sons by the daughters of Heth: and after - he put them away to please his parents, he took the daughter of Ishmael to wife and begot many sons by her (Gen. 36 :i-9). When Jacob was journeying through the land of Canaan, he made all his sons put away their strange gods of which they had partaken from the heathen nations. For this act of integrity, the angel changed his name from Jacob to Israel. He and his family journeyed after they had met Ishmael, Rachel gave birth to her second son and died immediately after its birth: and she named him Benjamin (Gen. 35:16-18). At this time Jacob's oldest son Reuben took Bilhah his father's concubine and lay with her, which grieved Israel much. Benjamin was Jacob's twelfth son, and the son of his old age. The sons of Leah were Reuben, the firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun (all colored). The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin (both fair). The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, were Dan and Naphtali (colored). The sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, were Gad and Asher (col¬ ored). And these were the twelve tribes of Israel. Israel died in Hebron, and Esau and Jacob carried his body into the East to the land of Heth to be interred. Isaac at his death, gave Jacob his real estate as a possession. He divided his personal property between Jacob and Esau, and it was very great, since they both were already rich. However, Esau took his cattle and personal property and searched himself a country. Jacob stayed in the land of Canaan where his father was a stranger (Gen. 37:1). The twelve tribes of Israel had four mothers, some were black, some colored, and one fair (or white). From these colors, the devil kept up a continual warfare in the house of Israel, during Jacob's lifetime. The ten sons of Jacob had no use for Joseph and Benjamin. And the seed of that hatred the devil kept up 94 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder through their mothers was to destroy the purpose of the mes¬ senger. It was in all the twelve sons and the- color was the cause of it all. Joseph became a great dreamer which caused his father or Israel to idolize him to a great extent; this simply added to their fury and their hatred increased continually until once, when they were at Dothan looking after their father's flock they saw Joseph coming in search of them and they agreed to get clear of him at once. And they sold him to the Ishmaelites (the descendants of Ishmael and Esau, then in the slave business and their market was in Egypt). They bought him and carried him down in Egypt and sold him for a slave. Then returned home and fooled their father, claiming that some wild beast had destroyed him. This grieved Israel much as he was getting old. By Joseph proving to be just and true and a great benefactor to the king of Egypt, he was delivered from prison and placed in the king's house as a trustee for all Egypt. Later, a famine came in all Canaan and the nations were compelled to go to Egypt for bread. Egypt could raise grain whether it rained there or not, since the soil was watered by the overflow of the Nile. This was why the Egyptians claimed that there was no need of looking to a god they could not see, they were so well fortified against famine. The messenger sent Abraham and wife there for bread. In Isaac's day he sent him and wife there for bread. And in Jacob's day there was a great famine came in the land of Canaan, Jacob sent his sons down to Egypt to buy corn, since there was none in all Canaan. The his¬ tory of Joseph in Egypt is too well known for the writer to at¬ tempt to rewrite, therefore, he only mentions some certain facts that have been found in science while nature or history is re¬ peating itself. Since the color of a man's skin has played such a part throughout all the ages of the world and is doing the same to-day, it is the sole cause of all the fortifications of the world to-day; if not directly it is indirectly. To give the nature of the figurative church and the purpose of the Great Spirit the writer will have to call your attention to the Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 95 ceremonial church which was in the Israelitish family. Among the different colors of the nations of the world, is where the devil has planted his seat of war. He has sheared up his fortified forts and has the nations laboring daily to make them impregnable with all kinds of inventions of a destructible matter and believing they are doing God service. But these things are written that you may not be deceived. The church of God cannot be purchased by the sword: it can only be redeemed by the same weapon by which it fell. And the sword will never christianize a man's heart, although the devil will have you believe it to make you his captive. XI. THE DEATH OF JACOB IN EGYPT—THE ARRANGED FIGURATIVE CHURCH AMONG THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, AND THE DECLARED WAR BETWEEN THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FORCES OF THE FIG¬ URATIVE CHURCH BY THE FACTION. The pilgrim, Jacob or Israel, since his name had been changed after having wrestled with the angel all night. When this hap¬ pened, he was forty years old. He stayed in Canaan, after he left his uncle Laban's house, one hundred and thirty years. He left Canaan on account of the famine, and by the request of his son Joseph, who he thought was dead, went down into the land of Goshen and lived there seventeen years. All the days of Jacob were one hundred eighty and seyen years and he gave up the ghost in Egypt down in the land of Goshen. Before dying he called all of his sons to his bedside and told all twelve of them what would befall them. It had been the custom and law from Abraham down to Jacob to bestow all of their real estate on the sons of their fair wives, and to give gifts to their colored children and send them away. In the death of Jacob, the dial changed in a large degree, because they had grown to the purpose of the mes¬ senger of God and the forces had been brought together by fam¬ ily relation among the Egyptians, the positive force. Jacob knew that his time was out and they were all down in Egypt. The land of Canaan was being repossessed by the Canaanites and the de¬ scendants of Heth and his son Judah. He and his sons took to 97 98 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder wife the Egyptians and daughters of Heth. Joseph married in Egypt, but his wife was fair, and begot two sons by her. Dan married among the daughters of Heth. Joseph and the other ten tribes intermarried among themselves. By Rachel dying at the birth of Benjamin, she failed to arrange for her sons as did Sarah and Rebecca; that was to have the blessings to fall upon them since neither knew the purpose of the angel; in this case there was no property to be divided. On account of the idolatry of the sons of Jacob, God suffered Satan to suspend gravitation over all the land of Canaan, and drive the house of Israel into Egypt for bread. It was not Joseph's brothers who sold him into Egypt, nor to the Ishmaelites, it was the Midianites (black and woolly-haired) ; it was they who found him in the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites; and they sold him to the Egyptians (Gen. 37: 26-29). It was Judah the fourth son of Leah, who proposed the sale of Joseph. Joseph was the firstborn of Rachel and the eleventh son of Israel. Of all the sons of Jacob, Judah was the most powerful physically and mentally; and Jacob idol¬ ized him as such (read Gen. 38: 1-30). Physically, he was as great in battle as his great-grandfather Abraham: and Jacob styled him a lion's whelp. Reuben he disinherited because he took one of his concubines. But as they gathered at his bedside, Jacob said, "Judah, my beloved, thou art a lion's whelp and thine ene¬ mies will flee before thee: and all thy brethren shall be ruled by thee. Thou wilt be as powerful as a young lion and as wise as an old one. And the sceptre will not depart from Judah (that is, the gift of prophecy) and the lawgivers from between thy feet until Shiloh comes." That is: the law givers among the tribes should be subject to the prophesying of the tribe of Judah, and neither should they depart from this subjection until Christ came into the world. And when he made his appearance, it would be the fulfilment of all the evangelical prophecies: and the figurative church would be completed and was succeeded by the spiritual Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 99 church. Into it would the nations of the earth gather. But it will cost the life blood of an innocent man of your tribe. He will have all the powers of the world against him, and the blood of every man will be upon his shoulders, but he will conquer and come out spotless: binding his fold to the vine and the ass's colt unto the choice vine. He washed his clothes in the blood of grapes: that is, he would be strictly a primitive man, or the seed of a primitive man (bound to the vine). And he will be born of the choice of your tribe (ass's colt to the choice vine). And his garments will be dyed with the blood of all nations and his eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk (Gen. 49: 8-13). That is: his eyes will be piercing and all-seeing, read¬ ing men at sight to the heart, and the words from his mouth will be without guile or imperfection. Jacob calls Simeon and Levi and says "Instruments of cruelty are in thy habitation, and the secret of their council will be tormenting to the soul, it will be so corrupt. In your-anger, you have already slain a man without a cause, but of your own self will: and you have dug down the walls of a city against my will, ye have taken the spoils thereof for your own greedy lust, and are one of the causes that we are in Egypt from our inheritance to-day. Cursed be thine anger and thy wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel (Gen. 49: 5-8). That is: they will leave the house of Jacob and take up with other nations to satisfy their own lust. Jacob says unto Dan, "Thou shalt judge thy people as one of the tribes of Israel and will be unto them as a serpent by the way." That is: their wickedness he will condemn and will not take bribe and. will await" the salvation of God (Gen. 49: 16-19). Jacob said to Benjamin, "You will prove to be like a wolf in search of prey, and at night will divide the spoils." That is: he will always be like a beast of prey, making himself happy with plunder and spoils of other nations, and divide them with his companions who conspired with him. When Israel had ended IOO Search Light on the Seventh Wonder his prophecy to his twelve sons, they all were very much surprised and disappointed, especially in Judah, because the tribes of Dan and Judah were amalgamating with the Egyptians and Midian- ites, or the daughters of Heth. The balance of the ten tribes was marrying together. On account of their different colors, there was a great division among them as to opinion and color, espe¬ cially the tribes of Judah, Joseph and Benjamin. The latter two tribes on account of color did not like Judah as a ruler. Israel told his sons to carry his body to the family burying place, which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth, where Abraham and Isaac were buried: and Israel, being old and blind, lay down and gave up the ghost. Joseph seeing Judah given power over all his brethren, and he (Joseph) being the son of Rachel, and as he thought, was his father's beloved, since he and Benjamin were the sons of his old age and by his fair wife, this was more than he could bear and he swooned and fell over on his father's corpse with grief and disappointment. Joseph had his father's body embalmed. And Jacob's twelve sons carried it to the land of Canaan where it was interred near Abraham and Isaac. And they all returned to Egypt in the land of Goshen, where they and their stock could get food and water. But the blessing of Judah divided the whole Israelitish family. They all, except the tribe of Dan, cared but little for Judah; the tribe of Dan allied or amalgamated. The great famine in Canaan caused the Israelites to sell all they had to the house of Pharoah for food. This made the Israelites very poor after the famine was over. The Egyptians had no use for them because they were shepherds. Later, Joseph and Pharaoh died A.M. 2116. And another Pha¬ raoh ascended the throne of Egypt and began to make slaves of them and treated them very cruelly by oppressing them. Abra¬ ham had seen in his day what would befall his seed by the Egyp¬ tians ; this was why Jacob hated to go down in Egypt. The tribes of Dan and Judah amalgamated with the Egyptians and dwelt in Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 101 Alexandria in Egypt, but they would not go into idolatry. They would circumcise all the Egyptians who would unite with them in marriage or by servitude. At times a large portion of the tribes would go into idolatry, but all never did. The ten tribes of Israel were made slaves by the Egyptians. They were a confused mass of colors, and many of them cared not to be ruled by the tribe of Judah. Because the house of Jacob rebelled and would not be ruled by the tribe of Judah as Jacob directed, God suffered Satan whom they served to touch them, and they were in bondage four hundred and fifty years, because they obeyed Satan their prince whom they had rather serve than be under the tribe of Judah. The Egyptians treated them cruelly and their cries went to God for deliverance from the prince of the air, and especially the cries of the tribe of Levi who was the leader of this hostility. God commanded Satan to stay his hand and touch not one that was born in the house of Levi .* "thus far shalt thou go and no further. Israel has repented morally and physically, and I am come to deliver them." When the daughter of Pharaoh saw the child in the ark, she knew that it was an Israelite from its color. The Egyptians were black and the tribe of Levi was fair; they amalgamated with the tribes of Joseph and Benjamin. It was not difficult to tell whether Moses was an Egyptian babe or Israelitish, for their colors betrayed them. God kept Satan's hands off the child Moses. He was reared in the house of Pharaoh (Exod. 2:1-11) until he was grown. Moses was of the tribe of Levi, that re¬ bellious tribe, the leader of the ten tribes against the tribes of Dan and Judah. To verify their repentance to God on the color line, before Moses got the command of God to go unto Pharaoh, he went into the land of the Midianites (black and woolly- haired) and married one of the daughters of the priest of Midian (a black, woolly-haired woman) and she bore a son unto Moses (mulatto) which was a strange occurrence in that country 102 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder (Exod. 2: 21-23). Moses stayed there with the Midianites until that Pharaoh died; stayed among a tribe which his people once hated as an equal, on account of their color. Then God gave Moses command to go unto Pharaoh: he told his father-in-law what God had told him, and he bade him go. Moses took his wife, his sons and daughters and went into Egypt before Pha¬ raoh, the Egyptian—positive, the seed of the man where the devil had arranged his fort to damn the world. _ However, Satan succeeded in capturing that fort by drunkenness and idolatry. The Gentile, the seed of the woman, was the negative force; but Satan would not have had supreme power unless he had succeeded in capturing th positive force—the bed rock of righteousness or woe. From the positive force, sprang all the nations of the world: when Satan captured it, he had the entire world. When Moses went to Pharaoh and delivered his message, they asked Moses who was God. "We know of no god greater than we: for we are all that ever has been, all that is now, and all that ever will be. We have all the gifts of astrology, science, sculpture, embalming and the transmigration of souls; and we have also a river that overflows its banks to water our land," and so on. Moses said, "He said, I am that I am." That is : I am all that ever was, that is now, or ever will be: and whom thou servest is subject unto Him only. Pharaoh wanted some proof, since he did not believe in a God that he could not see; so Moses threw his rod down before Pharaoh and it turned to a serpent. Pharaoh's astrologist threw down his rod and it turned to a serpent also. Moses' rod swallowed up Pharaoh's as a proof of the supreme power God had over his prince. Satan hardened Pharaoh's heart. He was not a servant of God, and neither did God control his heart; the one whom he served hardened his heart as a reward for his service. Pharaoh's prince, the devil, plagued him with plagues and pestilence of various kinds as you will find already recorded, which God had nothing to do with. Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 1(33 Satan pays off his servants according to their works, the limit is just as he prescribes, even in death. From a stroke of Moses' rod on the water of the Red Sea, God permitted the devil to collect the minor forces of heat and moisture and confuse them so that they would act upon the waters of the Red Sea and divide them on either side and make the bottom dry for Israel to pass over unhurt. But at the same time, the prince settled with Pharaoh and his host according to what their works had been. In this case it was only the moral and physical church; so far as man's soul was concerned, there had been no ransom offered. And the damnation of man's soul was already sealed, and God had no pleasure in it. For the strict masculines and feminines were bitter enemies as equals, and if they met as equals it meant murder, or slavery. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea in their exodus from the land of Egypt and were in the delta or lowlands, in the wil¬ derness near Mount Sinai where they stayed forty years before they reached the land of their ancestors, or the land that the angel gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their seed, for¬ ever. They had been dispossessed of it for more than five hun¬ dred years; and when they returned to repossess it, the Canaan- ites, the Midianites and the Jebusites were there and they were all idolatrous nations. One part of the tribe of Dan and Judah was in Alexandria, Egypt, and the other in the land of Judea. They had possessions all the way to Jerusalem, and had named the city of Jerusalem and the land of Judea after their tribe. The tribes of Judah and Dan had captured that by the sword and were in possession of it. But the eastern part of Canaan opposite Mount Mamre, the land of Heth, the homestead of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, where Jacob's well was dug, was called in later years Samaria. The family homestead, Galilee, and beyond the sea of Galilee, near the isles of the Gentiles, were repossessed by the Canaanites. The Israelites feared them since they were so power- 104 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder ful, and worried Moses much about this matter. They claimed they had rather die in Egypt than to fight those people who would slay them all like grasshoppers. The angel told Moses to call all the twelve tribes of Israel together and arrange them that could bear the sword. At this time the tribes of Dan and Judah were in Alexandria and in the land of Judea, ruling their own possession. The other ten tribes were in the wilderness near Mount Sinai, grieving over the flesh pots of Egypt. At the call of Moses, the tribes of Dan and Judah came to be numbered also, but as they got together, they began to disagree on the. color line and did not want the tribes of Dan and Judah to rule them. At this time the tribe of Judah had plenty of wealth and had built many cities throughout the land of Judea, Jerusalem included. The angel had shown Moses what to do and how to arrange them, but they would not submit to the tribe of Judah, and went back in their old hatred and grudge; and the devil touched them and they would die, from thirty to forty thousand daily, but the older ones would never submit. The angel told Moses to tell them that they would never inherit the land of their forefathers, but would all die in the wilderness: and they did die rather than to accept the teaching of their leader. But Judah and Dan had the sceptre and the gift of prophecy and also the power to judge. The angel gave the law to Moses of the tribe of Levi by which to guide them, and by the instruction of the angel, Moses wrote of the creation of the world and how God formed man both male and female: he also gave Moses the commandment on tables of stone. And they, rather than to submit to the tribe of Judah, went into idolatry; when Moses was in the mount receiving the law, they made themselves gods they could see such as the heathens or Egyptians had. Moses only had power to explain the moral and physical laws, the spiritual laws he knew nothing of; for the soul of mankind was at enmity with the will of God: and all of man's imaginations Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 105 were to do evil, and God had no place for it until he could train the body and make it a fit subject for His spirit. The moral and physical laws only follow man to the grave, and from there to his children to the third and fourth generations, in various forms. But a violation of the spiritual law will not be forgiven in this world, nor in the world to come. When the moral and physical laws are violated, they are paid for in the moral and physical world, as they are to-day. Sometimes it costs a premature death; sometimes a moral punishment. Breaking the physical laws often results in filling a premature grave, or a life of misery and tor¬ ture, poverty and disgrace, and by being excluded from society in the moral world. Deeds that are done in the body and by the body, must be paid for by the body, and with the body. This was of what the Mosaic laws consisted. For the soul, there had been no ransom offered, only as a figure. In the days of antiquity, God dealt with the physical and moral man through His angels or mes¬ sengers. Man must first be saved morally and physically, else there is no saving of him spiritually. Dreams are moral, and end in a moral or physical purpose. When the angel would speak to the physical man in the days of antiquity, it only entreated him on moral questions, and did not disturb the soul, for that, the devil had already, and kept a continual war with the angels, God's messengers, for his body (Jude 1:9). Mankind was lost soul and body; and if he is redeemed at all, it must be soul and body. Enoch and Elijah were translated soul and body, but not in the bliss of God's favor; for there was no admittance of mankind in the presence of his Creator; and neither h&d there been a Re¬ deemer for man to open the way that man could go to God. The ascension of Enoch and Elijah was only a figurative scene, a type of or for the restoration of man to his Creator both soul and body—a precedent for the figurative church, or a pattern for the moral and physical world to copy, to constrain them mor¬ ally and physically, that they might be prepared at the arrival of Io6 Search Light on the Seventh M^onder the Bridegroom who was then courting his bride in the moral church. The ascension of Enoch and Elijah was to show the bride what she would receive, if she would be ready and re¬ ceive the Bridegroom. That is: He would receive her into his rest both soul and body, since man had died that way. When the Bridegroom arrived though, they did not receive him, but He repeated the example in His own person for those who would re¬ ceive Him in after years. The translation of Moses was the same —a type, a figure of the spiritual church and what it was to be, if they would be sober, do away with strange gods and receive the Bridegroom. The Israelites continued to worry Moses and war with each other about their different colors, a thing which neither of them was responsible for; and it was a gross insult to the great Creator, because it was a direct charge against the Potter or God, who made all flesh. The' messenger gave Moses the moral, physical and spiritual laws, but the spiritual laws, he could not understand himself alone, because they were given to Moses sealed. And the Spirit had not yet been given to the world to reveal them; and thus the spiritual laws were preserved to the present day. The nations throughout the ages of antiquity, or the Mosaic church, could only see the moral and physical part of the laws, since it was to correct a moral and physical mistake; and Moses gave them the law as he saw it. The evangelical and minor prophets were from the tribe of Judah. The judges were from the tribe of Dan. And the priests were from the tribe of Levi, or the Levites; the high priests (or preachers), the laws and the holy vessels were put in the care of the tribe of Levi (the Levites), the high priests. The tribe of Benjamin and the tribe of Levi allied and amalgamated together (they were fair white, bleached bone) as did the tribe of Dan and Judah (they were black, dark earth). The other seven tribes were all colored, but varied in shades. The laws and furniture of the ark were in Search Light on the Seventh Wonder the hands of the tribes of Levi, Joseph and Benjamin. And from the tribe of Judah, Moses selected the judges for all their griev¬ ances; this, the ten tribes of Israel could never endure; and at times, they would divide and go to battle on that subject, and thousands and thousands would be slain daily on that one ques¬ tion. They were never willing for the tribe of Judah to judge them, and for this cause, they told Moses that they did not be¬ lieve God required it and that they were tired of his doctrine, and had rather see and hear God for themselves, for they would not hear him any longer. The angel told Moses to tell the people to wash their clothes and clean themselves up nicely by the third day, and tell the priests to sanctify themselves before coming before God, and all the people meet God on the third day at Mount Sinai, and God would speak to them, but to not let them touch the mount, lest they die. When Moses told the people what the angel had said, they rejoiced and were glad, for they were tired of hearing Moses. On the third morning when the trumps of the camps of Israel sounded, all the people prepared to meet God on Mount Sinai. As they neared the mount, Lucifer the devil—the son of the morning—the prince of the air, who is sub¬ ject to God and Him only, and stands ready to take vengeance on the world at any time, had confused the local forces and they were igniting upon the mountains and their sounds were like many thunders; the mountains quaked and trembled at the lamen¬ tation; from the collision, the lightning would burst forth like great balls of fire, and the mountains were covered in smoke from top to bottom. When the people saw and heard this, they fled with fear from the mountains. And when God spoke, Satan ceased, the noises were silenced, the smoke dispersed and he trembled at the voice of God. The angel called Moses with a still small voice, and told him to fear not, but come up on the mountains. Moses obeyed the voice of his God and ascended the mountains and everything was quiet: but the people were fright- 10B Search Light on the Seventh Wonder ened almost to death and exclaimed, "Tell God we will hear you (Moses), for we cannot stand his voice." It was the people's own prince whom they had been serving, that had frightened them so: it was not God, and neither did the angel command Moses to bring the people for God to frighten to death; it was their new prince. And if God had permitted him, he would have wiped them off the face of the earth. For this cause the angel had Moses have the people clean themselves up, else God would not receive them in their filth, and Satan would bring a charge against them in His presence so that he would be permitted to touch them. But since they were not and had obeyed Moses in that instance, he was not permitted to touch them. Upon Mount Sinai God gave Moses the moral and physical laws to guide the figurative church: and Moses gave it to the people as he then saw it (Exod. 19 :i-2i; 20 :i-2o). They were to be ruled by judges of the tribe of Dan, prophets of the tribe of Judah, and priests of the tribe of Levi. But later, they began to make outbreaks of wars with each other about color and slavery, and draw color lines. When one would cross the color line, they would administer sudden death without a trial in the heat of their blood, and revenge themselves for accidental deaths. The angel told Moses to arrange six cities of refuge for such cases, three on one side of Jordan and three on the other, so that the accused might enter and be safe until the case was investigated when their blood was cool, when they could see both sides of the question involved. This lasted for a while, but they got tired of it, especially the ten tribes of Israel, it did not suit them; so they began to complain, claiming that they wanted a king like other nations to settle their cases, for they were tired of going before the tribe of Judah and Dan, they wanted a king. Moses pacified them by telling them of the inheritance that the angel had promised their forefathers, telling them that they would be in possession of it if they would stay together and do away with Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 109 their strange notions concerning other nations. And the angel gave them a domestic law as to what and how they should eat, superior to that of other nations, to attract and train them in the moral world from low habits, from being bloodthirsty, glut¬ tonous, covetous and stupid. The angel also had Joshua circum¬ cise the seed of those who came out of Egypt, since their fathers died in the wilderness from a malady that had broken out in the camps of Israel by their not being circumcised. The angel would not have them to people a new country for the moral church with such a malady as that; he (the angel) charged it to Moses as his neglect, and they died in piles; a neglect of the physical laws which was paid for with death. And for Moses' neglect as a leader, the angel would not allow him to live to lead the Israel¬ ites to the promised land. As Moses was the cause of their fail¬ ure by not having them circumcised and as the angel would not have them with such a malady to people a new country for his moral church; neither would he have Moses who was responsible for it all (God spared not the angels which kept not their first estate; Jude 1-6). Moses died on Mount Nebo at the age of one hundred and thirty years, with good eyesight and in the full vigor of man¬ hood, B.C. 1451. Joshua took the new growth in hand and cir¬ cumcised them and went to war for the possession of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which was then in the possession of the Hittites, the descendants of Heth, Abraham's descendants by the daugh¬ ter of Heth, the Canaanites, the Jebusites, the Amorites, and so on, these were in full possession, from the land of Judah to far eastward beyond the seas to the isles of the Gentiles, from there to the Euphrates River. They had their fine cities which were fortified with large outer walls. They had fine temples of wor¬ ship for their idol gods, even in every high place (public place) and the groves (parks). They were idolaters and wine makers, but were skilled in all the branches of art and civilization. After no Search Light on the Seventh Wonder Joshua had prepared his men, he sent spies to the city of Jericho to take in the situation. Jericho was then in Samaria. It was there Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth the burying place for his wife Sarah, and where he was buried. It was then given to Isaac and was where he was buried. He gave it to Jacob, and after his death, he was carried there by his twelve sons, and interred near his ancestors who preceded him. This was the spot that the three patriots willed to their fair sons. But while the ten tribes were in slavery in Egypt, the Canaanites reposed and fortified it; this place including all Samaria was what the tribe of Benjamin, the tribe of Joseph, and the tribe of Levi were pressing claims for. The other colored tribes were pressing claims for Galilee, from Samaria to the Euphrates River. The tribe of Judah had already made its claims and was in possession of it, from Dan to Beersheba. They, the whole of the twelve tribes of Israel, and all the wise and prudent men of every tribe, were called in to help take the land from the idolatrous nations; and they did so at the command of Joshua, and the house of Jacob was solid. They came into possession of all the land of Canaan which was promised their forefathers. All the inhab¬ itants of the land were slain, except Rahab and her house; the walls were all battered down; the temples, their gods, their groves and all the high places were complete wrecks. As Joshua directed, Benjamin and Joseph, including Levi, came into pos¬ session of the old homestead, Samaria, and built altars and of¬ fered up sacrifice to God. They all worshipped God at Jerusa¬ lem for a while; then they would rebel and go to war with each other, and would conquer the rebellious tribe by great slaughter; under different rules they would then worship together again. And as soon as they could multiply and gain strength, they would rebel again. It continued and they became so disobedient to the purpose of the angel that the devil touched them, and they were captured by the Midianites, the descendants of Moses' father-in- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder ill law, and were held forty years: this was after the death of Joshua. God sent prophets among 'them to tell the people His purpose in the figurative church. The angel arranged with Abraham for the figurative church, and set it apart in Jacob. On account of their wickedness which God would not excuse, because he made them, and' their sins God winked at and gave them over into the hands of Lucifer the devil to keep together by torture from one side to the other, from one tribe to the other, but God limited Lucifer's bounds in that case, that was, not to wipe the seed of either tribe off the earth. The chase of Lucifer was for man to see his error and reform; he was to chase, press and torture them in the moral and physical world until the Great Spirit could find a virtuous woman and a just man, free from guile, strong drink and idolatry; one who could and would raise a son in which He (God) could pour His Holy Spirit, from the positive force, as an offering for the nations of the earth. Luci¬ fer the devil took it in charge with the limited bound that was given him by the Great I AM: the devil then named himself the captain of the Lord's host, and would chase them from one tribe to the other with great torture; he would set up one faction and allow it to stay awhile, then tear it down and set up another side (which is the devil's nature). He would appear in the figurative church in all forms, since he was the chasing prince. There was nothing in the figurative church that God had any pleasure in: and nothing did they have that He would accept as a ransom for the sin of the soul; that charge, all men had made against Him; and the devil was loose in the world and was the prince of the air; he spoke to the figurative church as their god and a man of war. He had power to say anything he chose to man and to appear in any form. On account of the wickedness of man, Satan had power to deceive the many nations and td darken their counsels, and succeeded in the same. Wars and slavery are prime institutions of the devil: all wars 112 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder are waged by two evil forces, each a selfish motive for moral and physical gain. There is no God in either side, because either will resort to odds to succeed, regardless of what the future will de¬ velop. The purpose of God is reserved unknown to the then confused forces. The god of war will set up one kingdom to-day and to-morrow tear that kingdom down, and give it to another, and another, and another, then back to the former. But when the Kingdom of God is established, it will stand forever and will never be destroyed. There was nothing in the figurative church God wanted in His rest: but by the devil's chastisement and lead¬ ership, by his paying off his laborers for their service, God's pur¬ pose matured through the persons of Mary and Joseph—the posi¬ tive force. During the time of chastisement in the house of Jacob, by their new prince, they were being ruled by judges and prophets of the tribe of Dan and Judah B.C. 1141. The angel looked over the sons and daughters of the house of Jacob, and put them to a test as to their improvement along the moral and physical lines under their new prince, who had them in charge; to see if they could stand a test for a Redeemer. The angel visited a house of the tribe of Dan which had allied with Judah, and spoke to the wife of one of the Danites who was barren, and told her that she was barren, but she would conceive and bare a son for a ruler (Judges 13: 3-6). But the angel cautioned her that during the time of her conception, she was not to use any wine nor strong drink of any kind, and that she should use select food. She told her husband; he knew her and she conceived. The angel also cautioned her not to allow him to shave his hair. When he was born, she named him Samson. When he was grown, he took up with the Philistines, who made a specialty of vineyard plant¬ ing, drinking, and making these strong drinks. From the use of wine, Samson began to visit the houses of the harlots of the city, dens of dissipation. On account of Samson's color it was Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 113 strictly forbidden by custom and by law, he being a Danite, to amalgamate with the Philistines. So one night, they shadowed him in one of the Philistine harlots' houses: and the Philistines lay in wait to kill him before he could leave the city, and to warrant his safety, they closed the gates of the city. When Sam¬ son came out, they were asleep, but he was fastened in the city. He knew the law and what the punishment would be if he was captured. So Samson took the gate of the city off its hinges and carried it off and made his escape. But they never gave him up. Later, he wanted to marry one of those fair women, which was against the law and custom. He got in with his parents to assist him in getting her; they told him the consequence, but he con¬ tinued. By the aid of great gifts on his part and that of his mother, he succeeded. But lastly, they succeeded in capturing him: and burned out his eyes with hot irons. He revenged him¬ self by destroying a large theater building full of people and himself also (read book of Judges). Humanity is the same to-day as it always was. At this time, the tribe of Dan and Judah was held captive by the Philistines. This test the angel made in the house of Jacob, for a Redeemer was a failure, and found the peo¬ ple wanting; the nation was not sufficient to raise a child to man¬ hood without blemish. Samson's mother took wine during her conception and Samson lov£d wine all his days. While he was lying drunk in his wife's house with his head across her lap, his enemies came and cut off his hair by the consent of his wife. So the angel still left them in the hands of their new prince. Eli ruled as a judge, and he and his house fell for a similar cause. Samuel became judge but the Philistines were opposed to the judges of Judah and Dan: and they continued to war with each other until they broke it up. XII. SEARCH LIGHT AND SCIENCE ON THE ALLIANCE OF THE TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL WITH GREECE AND ROME—THE TRIBE OF JUDAH AND DAN WITH EGYPT, B.C., 1063, DRIVEN INTO THE UNION BY KING DAVID, AND THE PEACEFUL REIGN OF KING SOLOMON. While Samuel was judge over the house of Jacob, the tribes of Benjamin, of Joseph, and the tribe of Levi (all three fair tribes) formed an alliance with Rome and the seven colored tribes followed them in their project. The tribe of Judah and Dan formed an alliance with Egypt. The ten fair tribes came before Samuel and told him that they were tired of the judges of Judah, and wanted a king like other nations. They told him that they wanted Saul from the tribe of Benjamin, and intended to have him. At this time, they had Greece and Rome to their support which were idolatrous nations of Europe (the seed of the. woman). When they asked for a king, it was against the will of Jacob and the law of Moses; they were opposed to their having a king and especially from the tribe of Benjamin. Their scheme was to get from under Dan and Judah. Saul was from the tribe of Benjamin. Their scheme was to get from under Dan and Judah. Samuel was from the tribe of Judah and so was his son Jesse, whom he made judge in his stead when he became old. As the people still insisted on having a king, the angel told Samuel not to contend with them, but give them what¬ ever they wanted for him not to grieve about their turning away n5 ii6 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder from the purpose of God, the will of Jacob and the law of Moses. The angel added, "It is true that they do not want you, because you are from the tribe of Judah; but it is not you the people have rejected; you did not make yourself, neither can you, nor they make your color: God himself is the potter. It is not you they have rejected, because your mother Hannah gave you to Him be¬ fore you entered the womb; she raised you as she promised the Lord, and you have walked straight before the people until now (Samuel i: 11-19). He whom they have rejected is the Lord, their Creator (Samuel 8: 1-22). The tribes of Dan and Judah which the ten tribes hate, did not make their color, neither are they responsible for it: God and He alone is responsible, and the offence is to Him, and not to you, Samuel. Do not take it as an offence to you and become angry, but give the people what they want." Saul was a goodly young man of the tribe of Benjamin, he was fair (white) and very tall and of a good disposition, kind and affectionate, well formed and a head higher than all the men of his tribe (Samuel 9:7-11. All the ten tribes wanted Saul; and Samuel gave them him, because Saul was the voice of the people, but not the voice of God. The voice of the people is not the voice of God, was not then and is not to-day. The voice of the people is for a carnal and selfish motive and individual gain. The voice of God is against nature and but few will heed it; history repeats itself. The law opposed Saul first, and opposed him last, but he was anointed by Samuel to convince the people and yield to custom (I Samuel 10: 1). Samuel told the people what the tribe of Benjamin the tribe of Joseph and the tribe of Levi would do for them when they made Saul king (I Samuel 8: 9-10). They would make cooks of their wives and daughters, take the tenth part of all they earned and make them their slaves; he also told them that they would cry unto God, but he would not hear them. The people were fooled by the three fair tribes; however, Samuel gave them their king. Search Light on the Seventh Wondev Soon after Saul was anointed king the evil spirit filled Saul's heart, as the angel had forewarned, and it came to pass that on the morrow the evil spirit from God came upon Saul (I Samuel 18: 10). This is an inexcusable wicked expression written, that has puzzled and made many infidels throughout the different changes of the world. It was uttered by men who knew nothing of the spiritual laws, neither of their Creator. It is only a moral expression referring to the moral church and to the prince of the air (the devil) who had a limited charge to chase the moral church. Sometimes he was in one form and again in another; and the moral church only saw things from a moral and physical point of view. There is no evil spirit to come from God, there is no one for him to commit evil against and no laws to violate to make Him evil. God is just and holy and is the great positive force of the spirit world. The devil, who knows his weakness in the presence of God, is the father of weaknesses and evil spirits and was a transgressor from the beginning. The evil spirit that came upon Saul was from the devil who had charge to chase the figurative church. God was looking for nothing from the figura¬ tive church to take into his rest, which was not then prepared, because there was no agreeable communication with God and man, and He spared not the angels which kept not their first es¬ tate. Because of their wickedness, the figurative church knew nothing of the character of God, they could not get close enough to Him to learn His real disposition; they spoke of God with an unknown tongue and without understanding. God is a spirit, one that is calm, noiseless and in contrast to that of Satan. The busy attractions of the world, amid the great convulsions and igniting of the combustible materials, confused gases and the busy attractions of life are so loud, there are but few who hear the voice of God; because the confusion of this confused matter is so full of attraction, and God's voice is so calm that the nations are not apt to hear it (I Kings 19:9-14). This is why the angel n8 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder convinced Elijah as to who and what God was, gave him an ex¬ ample of God's character, and the character of the devil. It was an example of the then present figurative church; and an example of the future spiritual church. That was, that the moral figura¬ tive church would be led by the loud noises and convulsions; and the spiritual church would be led by the still small voice, or spirit, something the world knew not of. All the writers of the Old Testament were of a moral and a physical nature, and they ex¬ plained it as such, to point to class legislation for moral gain which ended at the point of the sword. Not one of the writers wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost: the Holy Ghost had not been given to the world, therefore they wrote mysteries that were sealed, and they knew them not. They could see only one side of the scene, and that was the dark side. For this cause, the mysteries were preserved to be revealed by the spiritual church, to enlighten both moral and physical man. God rejected Saul and told Samuel to go into the land of Judah, to the house of Jesse, of the tribe of Judah, and there he had a lad prepared of the sons of Jesse. David, the youngest son of Jesse, was found and anointed king of Israel, instead of Saul; thus the malice of Saul was increased, and it was also an insult to the whole ten tribes, and they seceded from the union, or the tribe of Judah and Dan, since they had the European powers to their support. The tribes of Benjamin, Joseph and Levi had allied with Greece and Rome, and were then living in Samaria and a portion in the European continent at Rome, Tarsus and some in Germany. Later, the seven colored tribes were scattered over all Galilee to the River Euphrates, but they were governed by the three fair tribes and would not worship in Jerusalem with the tribe of Judah. And they, rather than submit to David of the tribe of Judah, the house of Saul (the ten tribes) and the house of David, Judah and Dan, after the tribe of Judah had allied with Egypt. The house of David went to war against them to make them re- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 119 turn to the union. They fought a long, tedious war; King David made great slaughter among the Israelites and it was so great that they returned into the union and acknowledged their hos¬ tility (II Samuel 5:1-4) and began to worship at Jerusalem together. After David took the throne in Israel, he whipped the rebellious tribes back after much slaughter. He weakened them so at the point of the sword that they submitted and put away their idol gods. The idolatrous nations, up to this time, among all their fine temples of worship of the world, had not one dedi¬ cated to God. The temples of idolatry were numerous and very costly with towers reaching far towards the heavens, temples that would require from three to four dynasties to complete, tem¬ ples whose gods'would cost millions, ten times, in gold and silver; where the nations would gather to pay tribute and homage, where they would differ in their creeds. The nations would be in a race as to which would have the finest god. Soon after King David united the house of Jacob, he con¬ cluded that he would build a temple and dedicate it to God for all the house of Jacob David's plan attracted the Israelites from their idol gods, and they appeared to approve of his plan. David wanted to build them as good a temple, if not better, than any of the heathen nations. David was of the tribe of Judah and it had allied with the Egyptians, Syrenians and the people of Tyre and Sidon who were all of one color and idolatrous nations. Not¬ withstanding, they were skilled in the work of brass, copper, sil¬ ver and gold, skilled in art and sculpture and molten images, and this was what the Israelites wanted, and the angel foresaw it, and it was put into the heart of King David to arrange to hold them together and they loved David for it. So an idolatrous people arranged the temple for David, to preserve the house of Jacob to the house of David, but they did not stay long: the workmen were allowed, just as Saul was allowed to be king, it was a moral issue and was the voice of the people. Up to David's time the people 120 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder worshipped in tents ai^d tabernacles. King David arranged some of the material for the temple before he died. When King Saul and David's son Absolom died, they were buried among the tribes of Benjamin and Joseph. Absalom's mother was a Benjamite (fair). King David begot two children by the daughter of Ben¬ jamin, a boy named Absalom, and a girl named Talmer, but their mother was fair. King Solomon was black and woolly- haired. King David was dark with woolly hair (ruddy). King Solomon's mother was the wife of Uriah. David, Uriah and Uriah's wife were members of the tribe of Judah. After Solomon ascended the throne in Israel he had a peace¬ ful reign. The people were kept busy building on the temple, a house to dedicate to the Lord and that kept down hostility among the tribes, aided by the wisdom of Solomon which kept the people subdued; and the people of all nations loved him as well as the House of Jacob. In Solomon's day there were great powers among the blacks, the seed of the man: and there were great powers among the seed of the woman. When Solomon got the good will of the ten tribes of Israel, he also got the good will of all Europe, the Gentiles the seed of the woman (the descendants of Japheth) and all the colored powers of the world in Eastern and Southern Asia, the descendants of Shem. For Solomon's wis¬ dom, they gave him their hearty co-operation in building the temple. The good will of Joseph, Benjamin and Levi brought the Gentiles. The good will of the seven colored tribes brought the descendants of Shem, and his natural alliance by color and tribe, brought all the black and woolly-haired powers, the seed of the man (descendants of Ham). The fair and colored races out¬ numbered the black race, as they do to-day, but they did not unite with the tribe of Judah only as they would form an alliance be¬ cause they were idolatrous. Immediately after Solomon as¬ cended the throne of Israel, he sent greetings to all the powers of the world and they responded. The greatest skilled mechanics Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 121 of the world were among the black race. Solomon built the house for the Lord; and one for himself. When he had arranged for his bride, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave his daughter in marriage to King Solomon (I Kings 3:1) and he kept her in Jerusalem until his house was finished, at the city of David: the same form of marriage holds good to this day when the ruling powers are all the same color. Solomon's wife was from an idolatrous kingdom but by the alliance the tribe of Judah had made with Egypt, Sol¬ omon's ships were allowed to go there and carry away great riches to enrich the temple at Jerusalem. King Solomon's fame spread throughout the entire world. The Queen of Sheba (a de¬ scendant of Ham) down in interior Africa, heard of his fame. She loaded her beast with the treasure of her kingdom and crossed the hot desert of Africa with her servants on the backs of camels and went to Jerusalem to know if what she had heard of him was true. But when she arrived, to her surprise, his splendor was even greater than she had ever been told; and she said, the half had never been told her (I Kings 10: 1-29). She added great riches to increase the grandeur of his temple. The Queen of Sheba did not mind meeting King Solomon and conversing with him in public (they were both the same color). Later, from Solo¬ mon's fame, he came in possession of many wives and they were of many colors and people from black to fair (or white). And they were all idolatrous women. Solomon proved to all the world his ability to rule as a king by the way he kept down the wars between the nations and his own kingdom. He proved his ability as a judge by the way he settled the case or grievance be¬ tween the two women over the live child. His wisdom was proven boundless by the Queen of Sheba by the architecture of his temple and kingdom. But Solomon began to plant vineyards throughout Samaria and Galilee *. he made great abundance of wine, and it caused his heart to go out after many women of the idolatrous nations. From the love he had for them, his heart 122 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder. was turned from the worship of the God of Jacob and he wor¬ shipped the gods of his idolatrous wives and concubines. Thus the kingdom of Solomon fell and after his death it became divided. King Solomon was not a Christian, neither was he born after the Christian era. He was one of the leading features of the figura¬ tive church; and all his acts and ability were figurative and were only a portion of the sealed history referring to the purpose of God when the earth would become ripe, after being chased to that pitch by Lucifer the devil. Solomon was the third king of Israel and succeeded his father David. David and Solomon were both primitive men and brought peace and tranquillity to the house of Jacob and to the world. Solomon was a figure of the primitive man in his right mind, partaking of the bread of life and handing •to all his posterity. The good will that Solomon had with all nations that went to him for understanding was a figure of the primitive man in his right mind, having the good will of all his posterity. Solomon building the house of the Lord is a figure of the primitive man when he turns to the Lord his God whom he forsook in the garden of Eden, and damned all his posterity. The peaceful reign of King Solomon is a figure of the primitive man when he awakes from his slumber and corrects the wrong he has done to himself and posterity, takes from the hands of the devil the power that was given the primitive man in the creation of the world, and drives from the face of the earth the damnable force who confuses nations, peoples and tongues, physically, morally and domestically; then, the nations of the earth will claim, we are bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh (II Sam¬ uel 5:1); then and not until then, will peace and happiness pre¬ vail in the world. Those damnable forces will be removed when the primitive man sees and acknowledges his transgressions. Then will his posterity acknowledge their alliance, for they will kll see as they are seen, hear as they are heard and together they will move along, they will think together, and Lucifer with his Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 123 damnable host will be driven to his bounds, and peace and happi¬ ness will prevail throughout the world; discontent will be a stranger. But the stumbling block is in the primitive man, a block which no nation can step over, though they have been try¬ ing for many centuries. Christ came into the world and did the work, a primitive man, and the world would not acknowledge Him. After His ascension, on account of their wicked hearts and love for slaves, Satan robbed Christ of His personage, (and gave the nations a substitute. Because it suited them, God suffered them to continue in their same old form at war with each other on all issues, even to the present day. Those who claim Christ are no better off than those who do not claim Him, for they have no peace, because they have robbed Christ of His personage—a sin the world will never get over until Christ's personage is re¬ stored. King Solomon, a primitive man, was a type of Jesus Christ a primitive man. King Solomon's many wives of all nations were what led his heart away into idolatry, and caused his kingdom to be divided among many nations. It was a figurative transaction, though it was in reality; it was a future revelation and referred to Jesus Christ's advent into the world; as a Bridegroom and all the nations of the world were his brides, they would sit with Him and follow Him daily to hear Him court His brides. His words were so charming and His promises were so great that they could not refrain from following Him from early morn till late at night: His words were so inspiring and refreshing that they would for¬ get their meals; but like a Solomon, He would prepare food for all His brides; when great puzzling questions would arise physi¬ cally or morally, He would solve them agreeably to the sufferer; as Solomon did the women with the live child. But Christ was so infatuated with His brides that his courtship stirred up the country. Because He loved them He was chasing them down, eating and drinking with them on the highways, and was at their 124 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder homes to gain their love, among all nations, tongues and people, until the rulers called Him an idolater and a devil, claiming that He was not fit for a Saviour and they put Him to death in dis¬ grace : as Solomon died in disgrace. And as Solomon's kingdom was torn to pieces after his death by the different nations of the world and given to other nations,-so did the nations give Christ's body to another nation, and they have it to-day. That is: Christ is represented to the world in the body of another nation which is a negative body, and will never draw all men unto Him by the sword, nor the torch: it is a negative body and the power of thought is not in it. It's a good thing to make slaves and that the devil well knew: it is a net fixed by the devil; and the devil knew that all men would approve of it, because every imagina¬ tion of man's heart is to do evil, especially along that line among all nations, tongues and people. That was what Satan damned the world with, and on the same line, his kingdom is crowded to-day. XIII. SCIENCE ON THE RENEWED ALLIANCES OF THE TRIBES OF JOSEPH, BENJAMIN AND LEVI WITH ROME AND GREECE AND THE SEVEN COL¬ ORED TRIBES THAT FOLLOWED THE ALLI¬ ANCE, AND THE TRIBE OF DAN AND JUDAH WITH EGYPT AND THEY HAVE NOT SURRENDERED TO THIS DAY, BECAUSE THEY FORTIFIED AND ALL WENT INTO IDOL¬ ATRY. After the death of King Solomon, his kingdom became di¬ vided and was never again one solid kingdom. The divided king¬ dom of Solomon after his death was a figure of the divided king¬ dom of Jesus Christ after His death and resurrection. The alli¬ ance that was formed with the ten tribes of Israel and the Romans (the seed of the woman) idolatrous nations, and the alliance that was formed with the tribe of Dan and Judah with the Egyptians (the seed of the man) idolatrous nation brought destruction to the house of Jacob, or the figurative church; that is: God in¬ creased the bounds of Lucifer the devil whom they served, and he almost wiped them from the face of the earth. The alliance the figurative church or the house of Jacob formed with the idol¬ atrous nations was only a figure of the alliance the Christian church would form with the devil, to suit the nations of the world r they would have eyes to see, and not see, ears to hear and not hear, hands to feel and not feel, tongues to speak and not 125 126 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder speak, for God would withdraw His Holy Spirit from them and deliver them to their king the devil. Their counsels will always be confused and darkened, and they will not be able to discern their right hand from their left: and they will meet on import¬ ant measures that concern the nations, but their prince will darken their counsel and they will adjourn, with their measure in as bad a condition if not worse than the first. All their legis¬ lative halls will be filled with legislators, both sacred and profane, but they will be confused, because the kingdom of Christ is di¬ vided among so many gods. The Great Creator has withdrawn His Holy Spirit from among men, and has delivered them to their prince with a limited bound, with the purpose of a future reforma¬ tion. As the kingdom of Solomon was figuratively, so is the king¬ dom of Christ in reality. King Solomon and his kingdom in all its forms, was a true and perfect figure of Jesus Christ the primi¬ tive man and his kingdom, which is in the hearts of men. After the alliance of the tribes of Joseph, Benjamin and Levi, they went into idolatry in Samaria, and would not worship at Jerusalem: they rebelled" under the leadership of Jeroboam (I Kings 12:12-20) B.C. 975; they denied their kinsmanship to the line of Jesse and the house of David (I Kings 12 *.15-18). On ac¬ count of the color of the stem and offspring of Jesse, they would not submit to them any more, claiming that they had rather die than to submit to them again. The Great Spirit became grieved and gave Lucifer the devil command to remove them from His sight (II Kings 17:6-18). The kingdom of Assyria was an idol¬ atrous kingdom, one of the powers of the devil which he had in reserve to pay off his servants and chase the figurative church, for both were in the hands of the prince of this world, and he would set up one kingdom by tearing down another. His aim was to defeat the purpose of God, by teaching man to be rebellious; then God would give him power over him. The sole cause of man's damnation is color, a sin against the soul, a sin against God, Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 127 a sin against the Potter, a sin of ingratitude. The kingdom of Samaria was captured by the Assyrian king and was almost ex¬ terminated from the earth. Later, they renewed, but they never returned to the house of David, nor the tribe of Judah, not even to this day. They arranged their strong fortified forts and sealed their alliance with Rome, the seed of the woman (the Gentiles) and dwelt in the northern parts of Palestine, Samaria and in Rome or Europe, and would not worship at Jerusalem. From the alliance the tribe of Judah had formed with Egypt, they went into idolatry in Jerusalem. God said on account of the idolatry of the tribe of Judah, He would allow the devil their king whom they served, to settle with them and cast them out of His sight as He did the Israel¬ ites : and that He would allow their prince to give their city and fine temple at Jerusalem, to the reserved forces of the devil (strangers) (II Kings 23:26-29). So Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, a reserved force of the devil, came against Jerusalem, destroyed the temple that Solomon had built and took all of its furniture for spoils, tore down the walls and took the tribe of Judah as cap¬ tives and carried them down in Babylon into captivity (Chron. 9:1-2). The alliance between the king of Babylon and King Solomon ceased at the death of King Solomon; they desired the wealth of Jerusalem and were seeking every opportunity to get it. The Babylonians were a nationality of the Midianites, the Canaan- ites and Amalekites, who were driven there by the Israelites in the days of Joshua and Caleb. While the tribe of Judah was in Babylon, they suffered hardships and were made to worship idols under penalty of death. The thoughtless class submitted at once, but among the tribe there were some wise and prudent men who had repented for what their father had done. The prophets, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, would not submit to the gods of the heathen nations: and for their integrity, God stayed the hands of their persecutors, and suffered them to go back to Jerusalem after being released from their captors. From 128 Search Light oil the Seventh Wonder the effects of the faithful spirit of their leaders, they were al¬ lowed to go back to Jerusalem to restore the house and city of David. At this time, the tribe of Judah was scattered all over the country; some were in Babylon, some in the land of Judah and some in Alexandria, Egypt. The ten tribes of Israel were scattered in like manner; a great part of them was in Samaria, some in Tarsus and the Roman Empire (Europe), among the seed of the woman, the Gentiles. The seven colored tribes were mostly in Galilee. Among the three fair tribes were the priests, all the laws of the figurative church or Mosaic laws, the ark of the covenant, and the order of circumcision. Among the tribes of Dan and Judah were the judges, the prudent men, and all the prophets and wise men, who were captured and carried to Baby¬ lon by Nebuchadnezzar for their idolatry (Isaiah 3: 19). XIV. SCIENCE ON ISAIAH'S MESSAGE TO JUDAH AND DAN, B.C. 760. After Judah's wise and prudent men showed a spirit of resent¬ ment in Babylon, and a love for the stem of Jesse and the city of David, while in captivity in Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, God approved of their acts among those idolatrous nations. The tribe of Judah was the purpose of God, because they were the positive force of the world, and if the world is ever to, be saved at all, it must be through the positive force. It pleased the Great Spirit to see them regard His purpose in Babylon. Among the tribe of Judah were God's men of reliance, judges, and prudent, the prophets and the ancient (primitive), the captains of fifty, the honorable men, the councillors, the cunning artificers, and the eloquent orators (Isaiah 3:1-3). The above was the class of men God purposed to lead the figurative church, to restore the physical and moral man. When they went into idolatry, it grieved the Great Spirit; and the devil well knew if they did not repent and would stay in idolatry, God would allow him to sweep the nations off the earth and that was what the devil wanted, to de¬ feat the purpose of God. God made man free to serve whom he will: and the devil knows that he has as good a chance at him as God, for he told God face to face, if He would make man free he (the devil) would make him curse Him to His face; and for that tribe to go fully into idolatry and they the line through which the Redeemer for man was to be born, and the devil well knew that it had been prophesied of such, that a Re¬ deemer should be born through the tribe of Judah of the stem 129 130 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder of Jesse and of the house of David, who the devil knew would replace the positive force. And through that tribe was Satan's only hope of success, he knew to damn the primitive man, the world would be his, because God would have nothing with which to draw, for the balance was negative, and has not the power to draw. It pleased the Great Spirit to see the tribe of Judah turn in Babylon, so much that He sent them a message through the prophet Isaiah (Isa. 1:1-9). Isaiah's message to Judah was not like the messages we have to-day, pointing out sin, claiming it to be as black as the hinges of night; and that everything that is black in the shape of mankind is sin or sprang from sin; that every mean act is black, and everything black is hated by God or in the sight of God: and if a black man gets to heaven, God will have to change his skin or color and make him white like his brother, who already has a free pass on account of his color. Isaiah's message was not composed of such insulting and irre¬ proachable language from the Creator to the tribe of Judah. For no prudent black man would, nor will, receive any such message, because it would have been a reproach upon God and would have questioned his immutability, and would have insulted the prudent man of the tribe of Judah and Dan; and been food for the ten tribes of Israel from one generation to the other, as a reproach to God, since they already had one that the devil had given them on account of their colors. But they were men of valor, mighty men, men that knew the weight of language, and did not receive any¬ thing that reflected on their being, or their Creator: for that God glorified in them, because they protected His justness in the world. So when they assembled, Isaiah delivered the message from God, stating that the angel sent him to tell them, if they would abstain from their idolatry, and worship and serve God, though their sins be as scarlet (bright red) He would make them like snow (spotless) and though they be as crimson (dark red), premeditated idolaters, murderers of their own tribesmen Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 131 who were innocent, God said he would make them like wool; that was to destroy the remorse of their idolatry from their memories, and He would look upon them as lambs which had never gone astray. Sin has never gone up before God as being black, be¬ cause sin is only committed by mankind, and would be a re¬ proach on the Potter. Crime or sin is styled by the Great Spirit as being red or blood (deep red and bright red) : it was Lucifer the son of the morning, the captain of the Lord's host, who styled sin black; and anything in the shape of a man that was black, was an emblem of sin. The devil knew that if he could succeed in getting the nations of the world to adopt that as a part of their language, they would always be guilty of a reproach on the Great Creator; and claim themselves justifiable because their languages pointed that way and they would never detect the displeasure of God because all would be guilty of the same offence, blind lead¬ ers of the blind; for that sin alone Lucifer knew that God would deliver them into his hands with a limited bound* (with his pur¬ pose a future revelation) so that he (the devil) could keep them dead while they live, with health and no health at all, with life and no life at all, because he would have them touched so deeply every expression would be an offence to their Creator, because their languages are arranged in such form, that when they pray to God their words are a direct reproach on their Creator; and when they think they are addressing their Creator, they are ad¬ dressing their prince: he hath darkened their counsels and every move of the nations is against God and their language is a re¬ proach in the first degree. It is a hard thing for a man to escape the door the devil has set ajar for the nations. The same re¬ proach is in many forms of speech. The devil is on the throne of the world ruling supremely, putting up kingdoms and tearing them down, rearing up legislators and confusing them. Had Isaiah delivered such a confused message to the tribe of Judah, they would have repulsed it and God would have approved of 132 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder the repulsion. But they accepted Isaiah's message and Nehemiah was sent by the king of Babylon a ruler or captain over thou¬ sands of his own tribes, to go to Jerusalem and rebuild the city, the temple of Solomon and the broken down walls; but when they reached there, the Israelites, the ten rebellious tribes, had the entire city in control and were bearing the name of Samari¬ tans. They repulsed the tribe of Judah heavily and had a very long and bloody war with Nehemiah and his men from Babylon. The Israelites had allied with Europe and they helped them to repulse Judah; Judah received aid from Egypt; a large portion of the tribe was at Alexandria, Egypt, but eventually, Judah cap¬ tured the city of David and temple of King Solomon. Nehemiah and his men only captured the upper part of the city: the lower part, the Israelites and Gentiles had fortified, and Judah could not take it. Nehemiah and his men rebuilt the walls of the city with sword in hand. Israel and the Gentiles or Romans built all the outer walls and all the inner courts; and the courts for the Gentiles and courts for the priests were built by the Israelites, also courts of justice were built by them in the lower outer walls. When the passover was to be killed, they would gather from all parts of the world for that purpose, and would circumcise their children and burn incense. The tribe of Judah and Dan would gather in the upper part of the city of David and Solomon. The ten tribes would gather in the lower part and there they would kill their passover, notwithstanding they did not mix again. When the times arrived for their weekly, monthly, annual sacrifices, the tribes of Joseph, Benjamin, and Levi would not mix with the seven colored tribes in the lower part of the city, neither would they go to Jerusalem to worship, but went in the mountains of Samaria to themselves. The outer courts inside the outer walls, were the courts for the Gentiles and strangers to trade, where the rabbis would hold court B.C. 445. The city of David was closed Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 133 In by a great inner wall by Nehemiah. At a special season of the year, they would gather from all parts of the world, the house of Jacob to Jerusalem to their passover; the Israelites from Greece and Rome, the Jews from Egypt and the land of Judea, but they would never mix again. They had inner courts in the lower part of the city, called the courts of the high priests (of the tribe of Levi). They entered by a large gate, and by that court were the ten tribes ruled. They had a great inner gate to the upper part of the city, called Needle's Eye, to admit the tribe of Judah to the city of David, to the courts of the prophets and judges and prudent men of Judah. They would trade and deal on busi¬ ness questions of finance, but socially they have never met again. For the act of Solomon in his latter days, having wives among the seed of the woman and he being the seed of the man, was a sin they never forgave the house of David for: and they severed their alliance in the face of all the prophets and went by them¬ selves and allied with the Gentiles. As the years would pass, the fair race would increase their fortification, inspired by the act of King Solomon among the fair daughters of the descendants of Japheth. Thus the seed of the man and the seed of the woman were totally divided as they came all the way down from the creation of the world. And thus the house of Jacob on the same principles is totally divided. Israel and Judah kept up a dispute about the rights of the city of Jerusalem, and the time, according to prophecy, was nearing for the birth of a Savior from the tribe of Judah. The devil had already arranged his forces that if he was born of that tribe, they would kill him. So Israel and Rome continually increased their fortification and kept standing armies as other nations did of the positive force (the seed of the man). B. C. 70, Rome and the ten tribes of Israel declared war against the land of Judah. In honor to Marc Antony and the Roman powers which helped them, they built a court in the city of Jerusalem and dedicated it to Marc Antony (called it Antony's 134 Search Light on the Seventh Wondef court). Jerusalem was divided on account of color. The land of Judah extended from the land of Mizraim (or Africa) to north of Jerusalem to Mount Ephraim. The three fair tribes' division ex¬ tended from Samaria to beyond the sea of Galilee: and as they were divided in their country and city, so were they divided in their social dealings. After Antony captured Judah, Liberia, Africa, and many other kingdoms of the seed of the man, King Ahasuerus a de¬ scendant of Shem fair (but not very fair) (colored) known in the modern world as a Chinaman, he declared war against Ethiopia (the land of Ham), and a large possession of Judah, he went down through the lower lands bordering on the Indian Ocean, the China Seas, and crossed the Red Sea into Africa. He invaded Ethiopia and took captives as he went, including the Ethiopians and many other different kingdoms of the seed of Ham. When he returned to Shushan their palace (China, south-eastern part of Asia), he was laden with captives and the spoils of many kingdoms. Among his captives were a great many Jews of the tribe of Judah: they were not bought as slaves: they were only kept captives of war (Esther 1:2-3), his captives were a mixed people. Haman, his chief officer, was of the same nationality as the king; and what turned the king's wrath upon Haman, was that Esther whom the king loved, and her uncle Mordecai, who had saved the king's life from a bloody assassin; by these means, the Jews' lives were saved, in the dominion of China, among the descendants of Shem. The name Jews does not refer to the Israelites, and they were not the Israelites who suffered in Egypt. The name Jews refers to the tribe of Dan and Judah, they are Jews; and the name Israelite does not mean Jews: this change took place later on, and all Is¬ raelites who knew better considered it an insult to be called a Jew. A Jew is dark and woolly-haired, because of the great change that took place after the resurrection of Christ in the darkened counsels of the devil. The name Jews has been im- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 135 posed or forced upon the seven colored tribes of Israel, to hide the shame of Rome and the three fair tribes of Israel; and at last they accepted it. The present age is unaware of it, and they have accepted a false name; but it is an insult to the wise and prudent Israelite: like the epithet or the name Negro, or nigger and negress: an epithet damning in its character, always has been, and always will be done. That the devil might succeed in confusing the world and hide the shame that was committed before and at the beginning of the Christian era to destroy Jesus Christ, he had to change the name of the tribe of Judah and the Egyptians and give them fictitious names to prevent the nations from tracing their crime. The general name of the black, woolly-haired man and his descendants, is Egyptians, the seed of the man. The name of the fair bleached man, or the seed of the woman, is Gen¬ tiles, including the colored factions who have colonized by their countries, tongues and people. The name Jews refers to a black, woolly-haired tribe of Jacob which amalgamated with the Egyptians, Judah and Dan. The Israelites were the fair or col¬ ored descendants of Jacob whom three of the tribes amalgamated with the Gentiles, and the seven tribes with themselves, and it is so to-day: their masculine features and the texture of their hair portrays their author, although some of them have bleached themselves among the Gentiles. The Romans were not the bleached Gentiles, but were a slight colored descendant of Japheth, but fair, who at the confusion at the tower of Babel became con¬ fused on account of their tongues which were in proportion to their various colors and did not commune with each other again until Ham got out a written language, and they were trained to commune with each other. Some of them became bleached by amalgamating with the Gentiles. The Italian, masculine featured and straight black-haired as a rule, portrays his author. The femi¬ nine features of the Gentiles portray their author. And the mas¬ culine features of the Egyptians or the black, woolly-haired race 136 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder portray their author: although we find men very fair with mas¬ culine features and woolly-haired, but it is an extreme freak in nature which hardly, if ever, repeats itself in the same way; how¬ ever, they will appear in all communities throughout the world at times. You will also find them in art museums, but why they are there, is for the want of proper understanding; and so long as they stay there and a great many other similar things, the world will forever be confused and will always make infidels as long as it stands; and that Lucifer well knew for he dedicated the plan to defeat the purpose of God. The purpose of God can never be defeated by the devil as long as mankind keeps God's laws. But when man faileth to regard the righteousness of his Creator, the devil makes a charge against him as being his servant and that the Great Spirit cannot stand, and the devil knows it and God turns him over to be paid off by the one they served. Man is a free being, God loved him too well to make him a slave: God does not contend with the "devil over man, because the devil is God's servant and His alone; that which is God's the devil dares not touch without permission and transgression gives him permis¬ sion and that alone. The sin of the soul keeps mankind in the hands of the devil to be tortured and driven to a limited bound, until mercy loses hope and the Great Creator unlimits Satan's bounds. There is only one way for mankind to escape the tortures of the devil and get out of his reach, where he dares riot touch in any form and that is done by overcoming the moral and physical laws and the sin of the soul, that reproach man had against God on the color line among the nations of the world. What has caused the Great Spirit to spare a reproachable world from the destructions of the devil is because his mercies are everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations, and Jesus Christ pleads to the Father that some day man will see the purpose of God for making him to dwell on the face of the earth. For these causes, Satan has been limited. He that faileth to be guided by what is Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 137 written in this book deceiveth himself, and all that he has or may have dominion over: understand what thou readest, and he that hath an ear to hear, let him hear. The fair nations of the world that are called Jews, are not Jews but Israelites and the black, woolly-haired races have been lumped in one and reduced to slavery, savagery, ignorance and superstition for more than twenty-one centuries by the devil through the seed of the woman. They are Jews and Egyptians, the seed of the man, the black, woolly-haired race, positive. The fair or white, silky-haired race is negative: the black woolly-haired man strictly masculine; the white silky-haired woman strictly feminine, and the colored races of the world are their children and they are neither masculine nor feminine proper. Between these two forces (the positive and negative) lies the sin of the soul and the reproach upon God and is where man lost his soul and favor with his God. The other sins which mankind commit are only against the moral, physical and domestic laws of the body and are paid for in the body which is classified in this book elsewhere. XV. X-RAY AND SCIENCE ON THE FINAL END OF THE GREAT CRISIS BETWEEN THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FORCES, OR THE BLACK AND WHITE RACES, B.C. 33. After the alliance or agreement became mutual between the seed of the woman, the ten tribes of Israel, and the kings of the descendants of Shem with all Europe; and the alliance became mutual of the Egyptians, the seed of the man, with the tribe of Judah and Dan of the house of Jacob, the two forces were ar¬ ranged by the devil; and he had permissien to use them, only as he led them into idolatry. His plan was to destroy the purpose of God, and the only way he could accomplish this, was to tempt the primitive man, and he would have power over him and the nega¬ tive and fractional forces would be compelled to follow. The devil also knew that according to the prophecy of Jacob himself, and from the prophecy of Ezekiel, of Daniel, of Malachi, of Ne- hemiah, of Haggai, of Hosea, of Amos, of Joel, of Obadiah, of Micah (see Micah 1:1-15) and of Zechariah (Zech. 3:1-10), that the time was close at hand for Jesus Christ to be born into the world, and according to the prophecies, He was to be born out of the tribe of Judah: Satan also knew that God would call his Son from Egypt (Matt. 2: 1-15). ButJ:he devil was determined to defeat God's purpose, which was agreeable to the nations of the world. Had it not been, the devil would not have succeeded as far as he has, but it pleased mankind of all nations. The devil intended to defeat God from calling his Son from Egypt; and to carry out his own prophecy which he (the devil) made to the 139 140 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder woman in the Garden of Eden, that he would soon sweep the primitive man off the earth, because he would lead him into idola¬ try and God would permit him to do so; and that if she (the woman) would obey his (the devil's) commandments, he would make her and her seed as wise as gods, and the world would move on easily, without him (the primitive man) because the gift of invention would be so great that she would not need him in the world and especially in her society. So Lucifer, the devil, ar¬ ranged his plans in the figurative church with Joseph, Benjamin and Levi, and from them to the seven colored tribes, and from them to the powers of Europe, and from Europe by alliance, to the descendants of Shem in Southern and Eastern Asia. Satan's object was to exterminate the primitive man from the earth. He knew that he had power over him because he was an idolater and God would permit him to touch him, to settle with him as a laborer. By the foregoing means, the devil did not intend that God should call his Son from Egypt among the seed of the man. By the time He was to be born, Satan intended to have the seed of the man exterminated. On account of their wickedness in that they were not servants of the moral church and hated God's pur¬ pose, God's dominion was severed and the devil brought a charge against him before God, charging him to be an idolater of the highest type, and a leader of the nations, which grieved the Great Spirit because it was the primitive man, whom the devil said in the beginning would do so. God told Lucifer the devil, that he might touch him and all that he had, but spare his life (his seed, Job 2:6). The devil had the powers prearranged and trained throughout the world to meet the important event, by preaching the color line since the creation; and they are the same even down to the present day. At the command of God, Satan left the presence of God at once, and went among his prepared force and declared war against Egypt or Africa, the Egyptians, the primitive man. Satan Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 141 touched the primitive man in Africa with a collection of king¬ doms, seventeen strong, of the fair, and the very fair, races of the world. All of the European powers and all of the great powers of south-eastern and northern Asia except the land of Judea had already been captured by Marc Antony the Roman; however, all the powers went against Egypt, the home of the primitive man, a collection of ten kingdoms with crowns B. C. 33 (see Rev. 13: 1-18). The great beast was the powers; the great mistress was Rome: the seven heads were the Seven European provinces, Greece and Russia and a province later called Ger¬ many, and so on. The ten crowns were the colored kingdoms that by the oath of alliance helped Rome: the spotted beasts were the different colored kingdoms that helped Rome: the world wor¬ shipping the beast, was the whole world worshipping Csesar of Rome, saying, there has never a man lived like him and there is no kingdom able to make war with him (Csesar). Rome claimed herself god of the universe. At this time, the earth or the figurative church was about ripe (but not all) for the birth of Christ; it was in moral labor (moral church) fighting against vice, immorality and evil powers. The woman in heaven was moral purity of the figurative church (Rev. 12: 1-7) ; the dragon that appeared before the woman, was Julius Caesar, the monarch of Rome, who had established a white supremacy throughout the world before Christ was born; and who stood to devour Christ as soon as He was born, claiming himself to be a ruler. The red dragon was Julius Csesar of Rome; his tail which drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth, was the Roman powers destroying the third division of the Eastern Conti¬ nent (Africa), also the third son of Noah who helped to dese¬ crate the world, casting them down to slavery, ignorance, supersti¬ tion and confusion. Satan touched them to the bone, and cast the third part of the stars to the earth to defeat God's call from Egypt. The sole cause of the great crisis was color, and the 142 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder world had sworn to never receive a Jew as a Deliverer, or Saviour of man. They were warned that He would be of the tribe of Judah and the Romans had already captured the land of Judah by the leadership of Marc Antony. And at the death of Antony, Herod the great, an Idomean (a descendant of Shem) was ap¬ pointed by Rome as their ruler. After Julius Csesar had captured Egypt, he went back to Rome laden with spoils and captives of Egypt. But up to that time, Egypt stood out in bold relief, the greatest power of the world (of which full detail is written in this book). When Csesar took that power and led them as cap¬ tives, the entire world worshipped him (Csesar) by saying, "Who is like unto Caesar" (Rev. 12:4) or the Beast, by saying "Who is able to make war with him?" and the very fair world acknowl¬ edged him king. After Csesar was acknowledged by the world, and inaugurated, he put up what is known as a white supremacy standard, inspired from the acts of King Solomon. Solomon's standard was neither, but a standard of a peaceful reign and friendship with all nations and that all men were equal regardless of color, but according to their rank and file: but Csesar's stand¬ ard was just the reverse, a standard of white supremacy; and that standard pleased the Israelites much and they were willing to serve under Rome for such a standard. At that time Csesar was king of the known world—all Europe, Palestine, the land of Judea, Samaria, Tarsus, Galilee, Egypt, Liberia, Ethiopia and other small provinces of Africa including Eastern and Southern Asia, by the oath of allegiance among the descendants of Shem. The upper part of the city of Jerusalem Csesar let stand, as a place for the Jews to worship of the tribe of Judah. All the kingdoms over which Caesar waved his scepter, were not captured by him: a great portion of them was captured by Marc Antony, a Roman general. Before he died, Antony made Cleopatra a present of seven kingdoms, the kingdoms of the Partheians, Armenia (Col- ossia), Syria, Phenicia and Cilicia; these were kingdoms of the Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 143 descendants of Shem. When Egypt was taken captive, these kingdoms were sworn in by taking the oath of allegiance and thus added to Caesar's conquests. The Israelites helped Antony to take the land of Judea: when Cleopatra heard that the ten tribes Jielped Antony to capture the kingdom of Judea by allying with the Israelites, she well knew what it-meant and she trembled with fear, because she knew that Judea her nearest friend by alliance and color, was a captive of Rome, and Ethiopia had already been captured by an Idomean king, and Liberia had fallen at the sword of Marc Antony, and now, Antony had sent her a message to meet him at Tarsus to make a compromise, and that the failure to meet the summons meant destruction to her kingdom, because all of her enemies had allied together: and the summons grieved her greatly. She knew that she was the last sovereign .of Africa or Palestine of the black race. So she consulted her astrologers and philosophers and they advised her to go quickly; but she took her time and prepared herself to capture her enemy. At that time she succeeded to the surprise of her wise men (but in her com¬ bat with Caesar she failed). Antony followed her to Egypt, love sick, and appointed Herod the Great over Judea B.C. 47. Antony never did return to Palestine, but Herod soon saw that Rome or Caesar was soon to come into possession of the kingdom of Judea through the claim for the rights of Marc Antony, a Roman. Why Antony appointed Herod over Judea was that Herod the Great, an Idomean king, helped him capture Judea by furnishing him with men and money and he appointed him governor. After the death of Antony, Herod saw the situation and began to ally with Pom- pey, and after Pompey's death he allied with Julius Caesar I. After Caesar's assassination by Brutus, B.C. 44, Caesar II. invaded Egypt with Herod's aid. Later, the Roman senate appointed him king over Judea, as an honorary appointment. Herod did not inherit the throne of the kingdom of Judea and neither was he elected by the people, it was only a decree of the Roman senate. 144 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder Herod's dominion did not extend any further than the land of Judea. In Samaria and Galilee was the Israelites' possession, and they were under Rome by the oath of alliance. Herod, to gain favor with Rome and the Israelites, began his bloody work soon after he was appointed by Rome. He made slaves of them and took all the noble men of Judah or the house of David and strangled them to death. He would burn out the eyes of others with red hot irons. Some he would fasten dead bodies to, limb to limb, and drive them from the city of David into a valley that was called hell: and they were compelled to carry that body until it rotted off or the fowls of the air relieved them, if the indi¬ vidual could live that long. All of the above, Herod did to submit Judah to slavery and subjection under Rome and Israel. Herod also destroyed the city of David and erected great temples there for the priests of Israel, synagogues, theater halls and courts of justice and one temple which he erected, required forty-six years in building. All of this was done in the city of David and among the tribe of Judah to defeat the purpose of God of having a Savior born of the tribe of Judah in the city of David. Herod also had a large Roman eagle erected over the gate of the outer wall of the city, called the golden gates which led out to the Roman road, under which the kings and great men would pass in coming from Rome to the city. The Roman eagle was so ar¬ ranged that when they came to the city they would be sure to see it; then they would know that he (Herod) had dedicated the city of David to the Roman principles, and that was white supremacy. Herod the Great did everything imaginable to the tribe of Judah to convince Caesar of Rome that they would never rise again to rule and reign. Ceesar the Beast had risen up in the world and had cast down the third part of the world to slavery and was standing before the figurative church (the house of King David and the line of Jesse) to destroy the Promise as soon as it was born (Rev. 12: 4). Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 145 And Caesar, to make sure the destruction, had them in charge him¬ self and was reducing them to slavery by torture of all kinds, throwing them to wild beasts, putting them in guillotines, skin¬ ning them alive, burning them to death at the stake and selling them to the different parts of the world for slaves, especially in Europe, B.C. 30 and 24. At this time, Rome was or became one of the greatest slave markets in the world. A total success the seed of the woman had over the seed of the man, and is so to this day and Julius Caesar at the head. His fame spread through¬ out the world; and the Romans dedicated the month of his vic¬ tory and supremacy to Julius Caesar in honor to him for conquer¬ ing Egypt, which he conquered the first of the seventh month of the calendar year; the first of the month of ripe fruit, and the Romans called or named that month July. On the fourth day of July did Caesar destroy the last sovereign and kingdom of the seed of the man and planted the standard of white supremacy for the seed of the woman, the Gentiles. The seed of the woman have been celebrating that month or the fourth day of that month for more than twenty-one centuries more or less. And as a rule, the seed of the^voman from that day until this, when a great independence was to be achieved, on the fourth of July, as a rule in honor to Julius Caesar and white supremacy, they would declare their Declarations of Independence on that date. Later, Julius Caesar died and his son Augustus Caesar suc¬ ceeded him on the throne of Rome. He sustained all the prin¬ ciples of his father, and the seed of the woman loved him and honored him as they did his father. The Roman Senate passed an order to name the eighth month of the calendar year August, in honor of Augustus Caesar; this was the succeeding month to July, and it bears that name unto this day. Herod the Great, king of Judea, but under Caesar of Rome, began to build the temple in the city of David in honor to Rome and Israel B.C. 20, a temple that took many years to complete. It was completed by Archelaus, 146 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder the successor to Herod in Judea. Herod the Great built many places of amusement in Jerusalem for the Romans. He de¬ stroyed all the former works of the tribe of Judah and left nothing to revive the memory of their former greatness. Fine places of amusement were arranged for the amusement of the Gentiles of Rome and the ten rebellious tribes of Israel, that they might meet and have their Passover without being disturbed by the tribe of Dan and Judah. Lucifer the devil arranged all these plans, and had white supremacy to its highest pitch before Christ was born, so that, if He was born of the tribe of Judah, they would slay Him as soon as He made his appearance in the world, claiming to be a Ruler. For the people among which He was to be born had been reduced to slavery; and any man coming out from them, claiming such doctrine, would be put to death. From the people's training, they believed they were doing God service, inspired by King Solomon's reign, which they had sworn should never be repeated by the tribe of Judah. Since the time was close at hand for Christ to be born, all the leading powers, Rome in the lead, called together all their astrologers, philosophers, craftsmen and rulers skilled in all the written and unwritten prophecies, and consulted them as to what time Christ was to be born, and where, and when. They gave the time and place as near as they could and of what tribe he was to be born (Matt. 2:4). Herod found that He was to be born in the land of Judea, but at what place, he could not learn, as the wise men differed as to exact place and time. But Herod, to be sure, gave the Roman soldiers command to go throughout the land of Judea and slay all the male children from two years old and under and not to let any escape of the tribe of Judah; if so, their lives must pay the forfeit. The soldiers were sent from Dan to Beersheba, with officers over them to see that they searched diligently and that none escaped; and the weep¬ ing and wailing of the mothers in Judea was heartrending, and the air was tainted with their cries. Rachel tried to content her- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 147 self, but she could not, because her children were not (Matt. 2: 18). The slaughter of the male infants in the land of Judea by- Herod has never been equalled in the history of the world. At this time, the color line was at its highest pitch, and has never been surpassed since: but history repeats itself, and a kingdom that divides against itself, cannot stand. If the power that was destroying the boy children in the land of Judea, had all b®en the same color, they would have avenged the blood of those children, for no kingdom that is fair, can commit such a crime on the poor of the same color, and stand, because on account of relation by marriage and social standing by blood and friendship, some of the better class would, and will, condemn the wrong, and work up a revolution among the people, and overthrow the entire govern¬ ment : and they would never stop until they had avenged the last drop of those innocent boy children's blood. No kingdom can do what Herod did, and all of them the same nationality, without destroying the government. The color line is the root of the greatest crimes in the world and is where man lost his soul. For on account of color, man can hate without a cause, but he can not successfully otherwise. On account of color is where man makes a direct charge against God which grieves the Great Spirit, and man cannot make either. Ignorance is the work of the devil; but color is the work of God and when man ignores them, he has ignored God, the works of the Great Spirit, which will not be forgiven in this world, nor in the world to come. These things are written that you may not be deceived. History repeats itself and natural science keeps her own history; that is, the rises and falls of all nations, especially the positive and negative forces; a history that the devil can never destroy, because it is a portion of the Great Spirit. XVI. NATURAL SCIENCE ON THE BIRTH OF CHRIST- SEARCH LIGHT ON HIS PARENTS—THE FALSE AND MISLEADING REPORTS CONCERNING HIS BIRTH AND RESURRECTION BY THE ROMAN SENATE AND THE HIGH PRIEST AND RABBIS OF ISRAEL, WHICH IS IN EFFECT TO THIS DAY. When Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea, the city of David and all the world was concerned in His birth, because it had been handed down to the people by prophecy to both savage and civilized that some day God would send a Deliverer into the world to save the people of all nations. They had been told that He would come by the way of the womb, and they did not expect Him in any other way, but they did not want Him from the tribe of Judah; for this cause Herod had all the male infants slain. When the time arrived for Christ to be born, the wise men of the East (descendants of Shem) came from the extreme eastern part of Asia, being guided by a star: they knew not where He was to be born, but they followed the star and it led them to the city of David, to a country they had never visited before, but they were concerned in His birth: as the Queen of the South, of a heathen nation, was concerned in the wisdom of King Solomon, and came all the way to Jerusalem burdened with the most precious jewels of her kingdom to present to him (Solomon), if what she had heard of him was true (Solomon was a figure of Christ). And so did the wise men (rulers) of a heathen kingdom, having heard of the birth of Christ, come all the way to Jerusalem, burdened with the most precious jewels of their kingdom to present to Him, if what they had heard and the sign they saw was true. When 149 150 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder they arrived on the scene and found it true, like the Queen of Sheba, they disposed of their treasures and returned to their heathen kingdoms rejoicing and spreading the news among the heathen nations (idolaters). The wise men knew but little con¬ cerning the different tribes of Jacob and the hatred that was ex¬ isting among them and the plans they had made to kill Him; but they learned it after having a conversation with Herod the king of Judea; after that they regretted having said anything to him concerning it; so they used precaution and returned home another way. Judea was the native country of Jesus Christ, and Joseph, his father, was a Jew, of the tribe of Judah. Joseph adopted Nazareth as their home when they returned from Egypt where they had been warned by the angel to flee to escape the decree of Herod in Judea. Nazareth was in Galilee, the country of the seven colored tribes of Israel which were led by the three fair tribes of Samaria. Herod's decree did not reach there, it was out of his jurisdiction. Joseph was not known in Nazareth but, be¬ ing a carpenter, he soon became known as a carpenter. While Mary and Joseph were in Egypt, Herod was taken sick even unto death. Before he died, to be sure there would be no virtuous wo¬ man left of the tribe of Judah to mother a Christ, he made a will on his death bed, that as soon as he died, the soldiers should slay all the noble women of Judah: this was to add to the solemnity of his death and please Rome. As soon as he died, the soldiers did according to his will. Archelaus was the successor to the throne and he enforced the will. But Mary and Joseph were sent to Egypt. Being warned by an angel, they fled to Alexandria, Egypt, a destroyed kingdom where the decree of Herod did not reach and among people all of whose conspicuous characters had been destroyed, and they were all the same so far as nation and color was concerned. The deed of Herod can only be tolerated where color is in question and that alone, else the simple class would have arrayed themselves against the existing kingdom, with Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 151 some of the better class as their leaders, from a race love and af¬ finity by marriage; they would have dethroned and assassinated Herod and destroyed his palace. They would have gone to Rome the seat of the evil, collecting the simple people as they went, as¬ sassinated Csesar and destroyed the entire Roman Empire, and lastly suffered to be destroyed themselves. The deed of Herod onlj succeeds where color is in question; otherwise, the kingdom will split in twain and the stronger side will avenge the blood of their fellow creatures. The color line is the devil's fort and if that fort cannot be taken, the devil will reign forever on the throne of the world. If that fort is taken, God's kingdom will be established, which will reign forever and will never be destroyed. Humanity is the same to-day as it always was. Humanity is the same to-day as it was when Christ was born. There is only one change, that which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of spirit is spirit. In those days, there was no man born of the spirit, because the Holy Ghost had not been given, to the world to change mankind's ideas and carnal nature; that alone will change them. Joseph, the Virgin Mary's husband, was a Jew of the tribe of Judah, of the loin of Jesse and of the house of David (read Luke 1:1-5). The priesthood came through the tribe of Levi and Zacharias came through that lineage and was a priest himself. John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias and was also a priest. Elizabeth was barren and John was the son of her old age; he entered and was born like Isaac, Abraham's son, Jacob Isaac's son, Samuel Hannah's son, like Samson (I Samuel 1:2-8). All of these women were married, old, and bar¬ ren. The angel opened their wombs as he did Elizabeth's the wife of Zacharias and the mother of John. Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, was the son of Mary and Joseph. The dif¬ ference between the conception and birth of Christ, and all the prophets and patriarchs that preceded Him, was that Christ was conceived by a virgin in her young and tender years, or right after 152 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder marriage; and those who preceded Him were conceived by mar¬ ried barren women in their old age. In the days of the Virgin Mary and Joseph, virtue was a rare thing in the world, as it was in Solomon's day. He exclaimed, "Who can find a virtuous woman?" (Prov. 31 :io). The Virgin Mary never knew a man until she knew Joseph after marriage. In that age of the world, men had but little respect for women and virtue was hard to find in a woman of Mary's age, and for her quickness to conceive, Joseph doubted her virginity and was about to put her away. Joseph could not have put her away unless he had already had her: man cannot put away that he has never had. Joseph was a carpenter and lived a savage life, but was a just man; he worked in Judea and sometimes in Galilee (read the history of Joseph's life). Mary was of honorable parents. The angel told Joseph not to put her away for that she had conceived, was his, and that she had never known a man but him, (Joseph) and that she had been blessed among all the women of her day because she was a virgin and a leading character of her sex, and God had found favor in her because it was the first fruit of her tender age and Joseph was a just man. The devil through the Roman Senate and the high priest's to destroy the purpose of God through the tribe of Judah, published and had it recorded that the Virgin Mary's conception was without the knowledge of man, and that it was a spiritual conception, and the spirit made the flesh, and that flesh came through the womb begotten by the spirit in the world to take the place and cut or lay a pattern for flesh to follow that was begotten by the flesh, in the flesh, and perpetuated by the will and seed of the flesh, to follow. The devil, the prince of this world, well knew that if he could get such doctrine spread abroad in the world, he would succeed in capturing the leaders of the nations (the wise and prudent) and the floating millions would follow. The devil knew that the wise and prudent would claim it impossi¬ ble for a man to follow a Christ begotten by a spirit and not a man, Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 153 because he was not really a man, and neither the seed of a man, but was begotten by the spirit in the womb. All such false state¬ ments were circulated by the devil to deceive and mislead man¬ kind. There was no Holy Ghost that leaped in Elizabeth's womb, neither in the Virgin Mary's, because it had not been given to the world. The move or leap in the womb that Mary and Elizabeth felt, was nothing more than is felt to-day by women after a cer¬ tain time after conception. What made Elizabeth rejoice was to find the message which the angel brought her, true in her old age and she was glad because she was barren. What made the Vir¬ gin Mary glad was that the angel had told her that Joseph the carpenter, a just man who was courting her and whom she loved, would marry her and she would conceive by him a Son, a Savior of the world, the promised Messiah, and His name should be called Jesus. The Virgin Mary was a Galilean and Joseph a Jew of the tribe of Judah, Joseph lived in Judea, and Mary lived in Nazareth, Galilee: just as the angel told Mary, so did it appear. Joseph went from the land of Judea across the kingdoms of Samaria and down into Nazareth of Galilee and married the Vir¬ gin Mary as the angel had told her; and later, she saw that she had conceived, or some very sudden change had appeared within her. But she kept what the angel told her and pondered it in her heart until she was overcome by conviction; then she leaves Nazareth, Galilee, and goeth across the mountains and hilly country of Sa¬ maria to a small town bordering on Judea and Samaria to the house of her cousin Elizabeth, a simple family of the tribe of Levi and of the house of Aaron. While Mary and Elizabeth were talk¬ ing over the message from the angel and how it had come to pass up to that time, the conception moved in the womb of Mary for the first time, as is customary among all women after a time: then Mary broke out with gladness and rejoicing to see and know that the prophecy was true as it had been spoken to her, and so did Elizabeth; Mary returned to her country rejoicing. Why Mary 154 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder went to her cousin Elizabeth's house, was because the angel had called her attention to her in delivering the message. The work had to be blended between the positive force and And the prophecy had to be fulfilled and Christ had to be anointed according to prophecy, as was law and custom of the tribe of Levi of the figurative church, to become a priest that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. Zacharias and Elizabeth were fair and of the tribe of Levi (negative). The Virgin Mary was colored and a Galilean.. Joseph was strictly positive (Black) and was of the tribe of Judah, stem of Jesse and of the house of David; he was a just man and a craftsman by trade. The kinship or relation be¬ tween Elizabeth and the Virgin Mary is no unusual thing so far as color is concerned: history repeats itself; to-day there are many black people who have fair or white cousins, and there are many white people who have black cousins; on account of the color line it cannot be claimed, else it will destroy the standard of white supremacy. Jesus Christ was a compound being like all mankind, but His superior moral acts were brought about by the strict training of His ancestors in the figurative church which made Him pre¬ destined of God. Notwithstanding, it took four thousand years to train that much of mankind to that pitch. Christ knew no im¬ morality because He was without guile. The predestination of Jesus Christ was on condition and indefinite. When that much of the figurative church became ripe, Jesus Christ appeared when the body was prepared in the figurative church. The world was tested all the way down by the rearing up of prophets of barren women, because virtue was so scarce among the young and tender age of the figurative church. In the days of antiquity, the moral standard of womanhood was very low and men took to wife as many as they chose among all classes and nations. But as God required in the figurative church the first and tender fruit of their flock for an offering for their moral sins, so did God require the Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 155 first and tender fruit from the womb as an offering for the sins of the world. Mary a virgin and Joseph a just man, a pair equally yoked together, were the first to appear on the scene, and the angel accepted them. Zacharias and Elizabeth only played the part of many that had preceded them who were barren and their offspring were only prophets in the figurative church. The second misleading spirit that Lucifer circulated through Rome and throughout the world to hide the seed of the woman and confuse the nations was that Jesus Christ was not the son of Joseph but He was the seed of the woman that God said would bruise the serpent's head. Satan knew that if he could succeed in circulating that statement, he would always be king of this world. Mankind would be confused as to his origin and there would always be a war about color, one nation against the other believing they were doing God service; and they would doubt the justness and immutability of God, and destroy the prophecy con¬ cerning the seed of the woman, that her seed would turn from the teachings of the devil and bruise his head (Gen. 3:15) by the preaching of the accepted gospel from the primitive man, whom she ignored in the Garden of Eden and followed Satan. The devil further knew that it would destroy the prophecy that the time will come when we shall know each other by color and origin as we are also known: so that mankind are the devil's (Matt. 21 :i5-23). Jesus Christ is not the seed of the woman and has never been prophesied as such. Jesus Christ was of the house of Jacob, of the tribe of Judah, of the stem of Jesse, of the seed of David, the son of Joseph and the Son of man (the seed of the man, Adam and Seth). The seed of the woman (the Gentiles), accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ through the preaching of St. Paul, but Christ they have never accepted and have not unto this day. It was prophesied all the way down to the Christian era that a Savior would be born into the world to give light to the Gentiles (Isaiah 49:6; 60:30; 62:2. Read Isaiah 11:10) that was to take color 156 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder off the pupils of their eyes so that they could see the purpose of God; but they will never see until they accept Christ. That, the devil will never allow them to do if he can prevent it, because that is his strongest fort, the fort he erected in the creation of the world; and if that fort is taken his kingdom is ended on earth: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be when that fort is captured, but one thing we do know, that the kingdom of God will be among men on earth as it is with angels in heaven. The per¬ sonage of Christ, morally speaking, was the purpose of God among men manifested in flesh of the primitive man, a restoration of the primitive temple or physical and moral house which the Great Spirit built in the beginning for its own use. Without the restor¬ ation of the primitive man, or the moral and physical man, God cannot commune with the world. God is a spirit and can only commune with man through man. Without this method, mankind is exposed to his new prince without remedy, where convulsions arise among the great masses of confused human flesh. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God and all things material were made in the beginning by God; for what is to-day, all that has been and will be, materially, is the seed of that which was planted in the beginning. By God were all things made that were made. The corruption of the world is the confused matter by the devil. Jesus Christ's body was the seed of that which was planted in the beginning, as all nature is, but because the world had been wicked so long His mission was short. His doctrine was such a contrast to their training, the work had to be done quickly, and He ascend to His father (John 14:10-15) and leave the work to be completed by the gift of the Holy Ghost through His follow¬ ers. Christ told His followers that He Himself had done great works, but they would do greater works than He, because He only opened the way and left it to be revealed when the world should become ripe enough to stand it. Why Mary and Joseph were at Bethlehem of Judea, or the city of David, where Christ was born, was that Augustus Caesar Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 15 7 the sovereign of Rome issued a decree that all the world was to be taxed; this decree was first proposed by Cyrenius governor of Syria, which was under Caesar, but it was postponed for a future consideration, until just before Christ was born. Caesar thought it a good way to capture Christ and put Him to death while an infant, by compelling every man throughout the world to be taxed and registered, each man in his own country, and especially the tribe of Judah, and by these means he would be able to learn when he was born, since all the births in the families had to be registered in their different countries, and the total reports made to Caesar at Rome: for this cause, Caesar enforced the law for taxation, each man to his own country, and that compelled Joseph to take Mary his wife and leave Nazareth of Galilee and cross Samaria; she was great with child, but they pursued their journey until they reached the land of Judea at the City of David where he was to be taxed: it took them considerable time, but they arrived there very late in the day. The Galileans paid their tax in the lower part of Jerusalem where the ten tribes met to¬ gether. The tribe of Dan and Judah met in the upper part of the city of King David, Bethlehem of Judea; they did not pay tax nor register together. When Mary and Joseph arrived, all the courts of the Gentiles of Europe were filled, and so were the inns and all public places of accommodation. Herod had arranged at a great expense great buildings in the city of David for accommodation and amusement for the Romans or Gentiles (the seed of the woman). For the accommodation of the tribe of Judah there was none arranged by Herod, because they had been reduced to ser¬ vitude. Little or no consideration was given them by the powers of Rome and the ten tribes of Israel: for this cause and it being late when Joseph arrived with Mary at the city of David, she be¬ ing in pain to be delivered, Joseph goeth to the stable of an ox to be closed in from the vision of the world, for her to be deliv¬ ered, which happened at nightfall according to prophecy. 158 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder The Virgin Mary was a Galilean and belonged to a dark fac¬ tion of the seven colored tribes of Israel and that lived in Nazareth of Galilee. The Virgin Mary had many fair and very fair rela¬ tions, but she was dark and a Nazarene, from a town that was ignored by the ten tribes of Israel, because of their color. Joseph lived there with his wife Mary as was the purpose of the angel to evade the wrath of Herod and the purpose of the devil through Rome (the seed of the woman) to destroy the seed of the man or anything that came through the line of Jesse, David or Solo¬ mon, that would attempt to rule over them. Solomon's or the tribe of Judah's reigns were opposed to white supremacy, but a reign for the people. The seed of the woman, of the devil through the seed of the woman, had sworn through the seed of the woman that they would have white supremacy or live heathens. The seed of the woman can succeed in such a movement, because the seed of the man did not originate from the woman. But the seed of the woman sprang from the man. For that cause, the seed of the man has an affinity uncontrollable beyond that of the seed of the woman. The seed of the woman for that weakness, carnally speaking, preys upon the seed of the man in his degen¬ erated state, because the door to the tree of life and understand¬ ing has been closed to the seed of the man and all his posterity for man's violation in the Garden of Eden. They know not their relationship and never will until the seed of the man awakes from his slumber and reclaims his posterity, and enters the garden of understanding as it was in the foundation of the world. It is written now and for all time to come the world will never receive the purpose of God to man until the primitive man awakes in his right mind and hands it out to his posterity, the bone from Adam's side: no man is able to claim it but a primitive man in his right mind. The seed of the woman, the negative force, cannot claim that bone because they do not know it when they see it; and they are not minus of anything but a prominent standard of training Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 159 that is fortified with happiness and contentment: that standard can only come through the primitive man in his right mind. Jesus Christ was a primitive man. Lucifer the devil who was wise, seeking to succeed through Caesar, enforced that law made by Cyrenius (Luke 2:1-4) to tax the world. The astrologers and prophets noised abroad that it was time for the Christ to be born and Csesar enforced his decree to get the tribe of Judah together in order that he might carry out his slaughter. The decree was so rigid that it brought every man of the house of David, it mat¬ tered not what country he was in, because they were known by their color and tongue. And Joseph was forced out of Nazareth of Galilee to the city of David where Christ was to be born. When Christ was eight days old, He was circumcised as was their custom. When Mary's time for her purification was ended, as is the law and custom of women, Christ was carried to Jeru¬ salem, that is, the lower part of Jerusalem, which was ruled and governed by the ten tribes or the three fair tribes, Joseph, Ben¬ jamin and Levi, and the seven colored tribes, to the courts of the high priest, and there He was offered to the Lord (Luke 2 \21-24)- as it had been prophesied, but at this time, the priest was over¬ powered by their astrologers and wise men, philosophers and as¬ tronomers, and the written and unwritten prophecies, that He was truly the Christ and came through the tribe of which it was prophesied. So they offered a sacrifice for Him in the temple. After the dedication of Christ in the temple, the high priests noti¬ fied Herod in the city of David, that this was the Christ. Herod then started his bloody work to destroy Him; but Joseph, being warned by an angel, took Mary and the Young Child and fled into Egypt, where they remained until Herod's death: instead of go¬ ing to Galilee from whence Mary came, he went to Egypt, Africa. At Herod's death, they were again warned by the angel to leave Alexandria and go into the land of Judea. When they arrived there, they learned that Herod was dead; but his son Archelaus 160 Search Light on the Seventh Wonder reigned in his stead and was carrying out his father's principles. Having been warned by an angel, they went a private way through Judea, Samaria and down into Nazareth of Galilee among the Israelites. There Joseph settled himself and family and began work at his trade, carpentry. The Virgin Mary bore several sons and daughters unto Joseph, who were brothers and sisters to Jesus Christ (Matt. 13:55). But Jesus Christ was her firstborn, and worked with His father, as a carpenter, until He was thirty years old. Mary and Joseph had been forewarned by an angel as to how to rear and train their firstborn, who was to be raised without guile. Joseph being a just man, took Christ with him at his trade, that he could care for Him. The instructions for the training of Christ were given to all the parents of the prophets who preceded Him (see I. Samuel 22:28), the prophets Daniel, Sharach, Meshach, Abednego, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Isaac, Jacob, Elijah, Elisha, Samson and many others. But the difference be¬ tween Christ and His predecessors was that they were born of women, old and barren, and their fathers had many wives sub¬ jects to the moral and physical laws. Jesus Christ was the pur¬ pose of the physical church, and it was to restore the moral and physical man only. When Christ reached the age of thirty years and was begotten of the Father by the Holy Ghost, this was the purpose of God in the spiritual world or church. Jesus Christ was in direct line from Adam and Seth (Luke 3 138) and was a primitive man. He was reared without guile, was strictly moral and worked as a carpenter for a living, but was superior to His rank and file among men. This was due to His parents and His moral and physical training; and thus He grew in favor with God and man. Christ did not begin His ministry until after He was begotten of the Father by the Holy Ghost at the baptism of John the Baptizer, which quickened His flesh. Christ then had power to work miracles among the people: not until then did He have any power further than the moral and physical world, but to en- Search Light on the Seventh Wonder 161 large or spread His power over men, God had to testify to the blood to quicken His flesh that He might see and know the pur¬ pose of God. Science clearly proves, that a Christ or a Savior, a Redeemer, to die for all mankind and to lay a pattern for man¬ kind to copy, in the first place, must be a man in his refined form morally and physically; secondly, he must be a primitive man with the blood of all nations in his veins; thirdly, he must- be begotten like all other men in their refined form; he must have trained parents and be trained himself, reared above vice and im¬ morality to make the pattern possible for men begotten in like manner. Lucifer the devil, the prince of the air circulated very misleading statements about Christ's birth and mankind ac¬ cepted it because they loved darkness best. Up to that time the Holy Spirit had not been given to the world and Jesus Christ did more than any other man that had preceded Him and arose from the dead Himself. They concluded, for the love of iniquity, that He was not a man, nor was He begotten like a man: all such was written for want of understanding the character of the Great Spirit and what His will is to man. Jesus was really the son of Joseph, a just man, and the Virgin Mary was His mother; and He was the first begotten of the Father (or Great Spirit) from the earth, since the world began; the first time the Holy Spirit dwelt on earth among men since the creation of the world, was at the baptism of Christ by John, when the Holy Spirit begot Jesus Christ as the first fruit from the world. It stayed in the person of Jesus Christ three years and six months and guided Him while in the world and carried Him to heaven both soul an